Jimmy Yu

Vice President

Explosive growth in mobile data traffic driven by 4G and 5G is driving service providers to expand their mobile backhaul capacity with both Fiber/Copper and Wireless technologies. To take advantage of the opportunities in this market, component manufacturers, equipment vendors, service providers, and financial institutions need to answer critical business questions including:

  • How quickly will the Mobile Backhaul market grow and what events will influence its growth?
  • What is the demand for Fiber/Copper versus Wireless in Macro Cells and Small Cells?
  • What is the future demand for the various types of microwave transmission systems—TDM Microwave, Packet Microwave, and Hybrid Microwave?
  • What is the market potential for E-band systems?
  • Which vendors lead the equipment market?
  • What are the pricing trends of microwave equipment?

To answer these and other important questions, Dell’Oro Group delivers both quarterly reports and 5-year forecasts on the Microwave Transmission & Mobile Backhaul market.

Microwave Transmission & Mobile Backhaul Quarterly Reports

This Quarterly report primarily focuses on point-to-point Microwave Transmission technologies. Dell’Oro Group publishes Microwave Transmission & Mobile Backhaul quarterly reports containing in-depth market-level and detailed vendor market share information on the following markets:

  • TDM, Packet, and Hybrid Microwave
  • Microwave Transmission by Application: Mobile Backhaul and Verticals
  • Long haul, Short haul, Split mount units, Full indoor units, and full outdoor units
  • E/V Band systems
  • FODU High Capacity

The reports include tables showing manufacturers’ revenue, radio transceivers, and average selling prices by various technologies.

We also track:

  • The Microwave Transmission market by region—North America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), Europe only, Africa only, Middle East only, Asia Pacific, India only, and CALA (Caribbean and Latin America)
  • The Microwave Transmission market by the vendor for full indoor and full outdoor units (each reported separately) as well as applications (mobile backhaul and verticals)
  • TDM Microwave, Packet Microwave and Hybrid Microwave vendor port shipments by speed – T1/E1 Equivalent, Ethernet 100 Mbps, and Ethernet 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps

Microwave Transmission & Mobile Backhaul 5-Year Forecasts

Dell’Oro Group publishes Microwave Transmission & Mobile Backhaul 5-year forecasts offering a complete overview of the market with historical data from 2009 to the present. In this report, we have combined two inter-related market forecasts: Mobile Backhaul Transport and Microwave Transmission.Mobile Backhaul Transport includes forecasts for two technologies that are commonly used for mobile backhaul: fiber/copper and wireless.  Fiber/copper includes optical transport equipment, such as multiservice multiplexers, and access equipment, such as DSL/PON. Wireless includes point-to-point as well as point-to-multipoint equipment.

Microwave Transmission includes a forecast for three point-to-point systems: TDM Microwave, Packet Microwave, and Hybrid Microwave. It also includes a forecast by system configuration: full indoor unit (FIDU), full outdoor unit (FODU), and split-mount. The Microwave Transmission forecast covers all applications using microwave for transport, including mobile backhaul, which alone drives approximately 70 percent of the Microwave Transmission market’s revenues.

The forecasts provide a comprehensive overview of market trends and include tables covering revenue, shipments, average selling price, and regional forecasts for various technologies:

  • TDM, Packet, and Hybrid Microwave
  • Microwave Transmission by Application: Mobile Backhaul and Verticals
  • Long haul, Short haul, Split mount units, Full indoor units, and full outdoor units
  • E/V Band systems
  • FODU High Capacity

We also forecast:

  • xHaul
  • Mobile Backhaul (Macro Cell and Small Cell)
  • Mobile Fronthaul
  • Fiber/Copper and Wireless
  • 5G Backhaul

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