SVM MobileBits » broadband wireless http://www.svmmobilebits.com Mobile & Broadband Practice Group Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:32:29 +0000 en hourly 1 Leading Analyst Firms Continue to Predict Big Numbers for LTE http://www.svmmobilebits.com/2009/07/14/leading-analyst-firms-continue-to-predict-big-numbers-for-lte/ http://www.svmmobilebits.com/2009/07/14/leading-analyst-firms-continue-to-predict-big-numbers-for-lte/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:25:49 +0000 SVM http://svmmobilebits.com/?p=214 Juniper Research recently published a report predicting that the number LTE subscribers is expected to exceed 100 million by 2014. Howard Wilcox, author of the report, was quoted as saying, “There is intense activity in the LTE market right now, with in excess of 30 network operator commitments.”

In the same time period, another leading research firm, ABI Research, issued a report stating that it believes that wireless operators will spend roughly $3.3 billion building LTE base stations in 2011. Senior Analyst Nadine Manjaro states that, “Vendors will be shipping base station equipment in significant quantities in 2010 ahead of limited trials that typically last about a year, followed by full commercial launches.” ABI research previously issued a study in June of 2009 noting that the number of wireless operators committed to deploying LTE networks and offering LTE-based services to subscribers in 2010 has climbed to at least 12.

For more information, see:

http://www.fiercebroadbandwireless.com/story/juniper-abi-research-forecast-big-numbers-lte/2009-07-09?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/dozen-operators-launching-lte-services-2010

]]> http://www.svmmobilebits.com/2009/07/14/leading-analyst-firms-continue-to-predict-big-numbers-for-lte/feed/ 0 Bringing Broadband Wireless to the Smart Grid http://www.svmmobilebits.com/2009/05/28/bringing-broadband-wireless-to-the-smart-grid/ http://www.svmmobilebits.com/2009/05/28/bringing-broadband-wireless-to-the-smart-grid/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 14:02:04 +0000 SVM http://svmmobilebits.com/?p=145 This morning’s news from Trilliant regarding its acquisition of SkyPilot Networks combines two of our areas of interest here at SVM: broadband wireless and green technologies! We find the deal particularly interesting as the acquisition of SkyPilot will allow Trilliant to bring broadband wireless networking to utility smart-grid programs. Trilliant provides intelligent network solutions and software to utilities for advanced metering, demand response, and Smart Grid management, and SkyPilot Networks is primarily in the municipal Wi-Fi systems market.

According to a story published on CNET Green Tech, citing comments provided by Trilliant senior vice president of marketing Eric Miller, here’s how the deal breaks down: “smart meters” have a communications link to utilities, which use the information to get a better understanding of changes in demand in order to run the transmission grid more efficiently. Trilliant currently supplies the radio communications cards that go into meters and software for the utility companies to run these networks.

The route to carry this information from home meters back to the utilities’ data centers is combination of networks. Trilliant products can create a mesh network among different homes where information can be transferred to an aggregation point such as a substation. Utility companies typically rely on digital cellular networks as the backhaul network used to reach their data centers but with SkyPilot’s base stations, utilities can now do backhaul using long-range Wi-Fi. With the signal range as much as ten miles, Trilliant predicts that SkyPilot’s gear will be used to aggregate smart meter information in one city for transmission back to utilities or to be used to reach rural places that don’t have adequate cellular coverage.

For more information see:

http://www.trilliantinc.com

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