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Picocells to grow device ecosystem by 2015
Nicolas Mokhoff
3/9/2012 8:21 AM EST
MANHASSET, NY -- Market research firm In-Stat forecasts the value of outdoor metropolitan picocells will jump to $6.9 billion in 2015 due to the quantity needed to provide sufficient services for an evolving 4G voice and data market.
"Silicon providers like Cavium and Texas Instruments, both of which have made SoC solutions for macro base stations, are reworking their platforms to include chipsets for these devices. Picochip (acquired by Mindspeed) is scaling its platform upward to address this market, and Intel, which has had a limited presence in cellular infrastructure SoCs, introduced two product modules with Ubiquisys at Mobile World Congress,” said Chris Kissel, Senior Analyst, in a statement.
In-Stat’s recent research report, "Femtocells and Small Cells: Making the Most of Megahertz" profiles leading device manufacturers, chipset providers, and other ecosystem providers in small cells including AirHop Communications, Airspan, Airvana, AirWalk Communications, Alcatel-Lucent, BelAir Networks, Broadcom, Cavium, Cisco, Cognovo, CommScope, Contela, DesignArt, Ericsson, Freescale, Huawei, Intel, ip.access, Juni, Mindspeed, NEC, Nokia Siemens Networks, Picochip, Powerwave, Qualcomm, Taqua, Samsung, Texas Instruments, Ubiquisys, Wazco, and ZTE.
The report is available here.
"Silicon providers like Cavium and Texas Instruments, both of which have made SoC solutions for macro base stations, are reworking their platforms to include chipsets for these devices. Picochip (acquired by Mindspeed) is scaling its platform upward to address this market, and Intel, which has had a limited presence in cellular infrastructure SoCs, introduced two product modules with Ubiquisys at Mobile World Congress,” said Chris Kissel, Senior Analyst, in a statement.
In-Stat’s recent research report, "Femtocells and Small Cells: Making the Most of Megahertz" profiles leading device manufacturers, chipset providers, and other ecosystem providers in small cells including AirHop Communications, Airspan, Airvana, AirWalk Communications, Alcatel-Lucent, BelAir Networks, Broadcom, Cavium, Cisco, Cognovo, CommScope, Contela, DesignArt, Ericsson, Freescale, Huawei, Intel, ip.access, Juni, Mindspeed, NEC, Nokia Siemens Networks, Picochip, Powerwave, Qualcomm, Taqua, Samsung, Texas Instruments, Ubiquisys, Wazco, and ZTE.
The report is available here.
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DrQuine
3/11/2012 6:23 PM EDT
Affordable picocell transmitters would sell like hotcakes. What is holding this technology back? Everyone with a cellphone can tell you about the dead spots in their living and work environments. Most of these places have Internet access - they just need an affordable solution to be available.
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CFSturman
4/13/2012 10:57 AM EDT
There is a real trend now for single scalable architectures - from small-cell to macro-cell - and realised as SoCs. This is driven by the massive ramp in small-cell volumes as mentioned in the first para. Of course, this has only recently been possible due to the evolution of v. high performance multi-core vector based DSPs and development tools. Quite reminiscent of the change in the video and graphics industries over the last 10 years.
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