RAN centric NFV and SDN investments to reach $5 Billion by 2020, says SNS Research report
DUBAI, UAE. 24th March 2014: SNS Research's latest report indicates that Radio Access Network (RAN) centric Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) investments are expected to reach $5 Billion by 2020.
Global wireless CapEx is on the rise, as operators deploy LTE and Heterogeneous Network (HetNet) infrastructure, amid growing demands for high-speed mobile broadband connectivity. By eliminating reliance on expensive proprietary hardware platforms, NFV and SDN promise to reduce the CapEx burden on wireless carriers. In addition, both technologies can significantly slash OpEx due to a reduction in physical space, labor and power consumption.
Driven by the promise of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduction, wireless carriers are aggressively jumping on the NFV and SDN bandwagon, targeting integration across a multitude of areas including RAN, mobile core, OSS/BSS, backhaul and CPE/home environment.
By 2020, SNS Research estimates that NFV and SDN investments on the RAN segment alone will account for over $5 Billion. These investments will primarily focus on cloud RAN (C-RAN) deployments, based around the idea of replacing traditional base station nodes with a centralized baseband processing pool serving a number of distributed radio access nodes.
The "NFV, SDN & Wireless Network Infrastructure Bible: 2014 – 2020" report package provides an in-depth assessment of NFV, SDN, network virtualization, 2G, 3G and 4G wireless network infrastructure, HetNet and mobile backhaul. Besides analyzing the key market drivers, challenges, commercial commitments and vendor strategies, the report package also presents forecasts for NFV, SDN, wireless network infrastructure, small cell, WiFi offload, Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS), C-RAN the mobile backhaul markets from 2014 to 2020 at a regional as well as a global scale. Historical figures and vendor shares are also provided for 2010 till 2013.
The report package will be of value to current and future potential investors into the wireless and NFV/SDN/network virtualization sectors, as well as wireless carriers and infrastructure/device/software vendors who wish to broaden their knowledge of the ecosystem.
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