The market for mobile backhaul will exceed $8 billion in revenues by 2015. That’s according to Dell’Oro Group in a new market forecast report.
Rather than simply estimating a percentage of capital expenditures that service providers would incur on mobile backhaul, Redwood City, Calif.-based Dell’Oro Group said it analyzed several factors in preparing the report.
Among other things, Dell’Oro analyzed mobility infrastructure, carrier Ethernet switches, service provider edge routers, microwave transmission and optical transport equipment.
The report indicates the overall market for mobile backhaul will grow more than 40 percent in the next five years while revenues for the routers and switches segment will more than double over the same period.
“The huge growth in bandwidth requirements, coupled with the transition to 4G IP-based cellular radio technologies will drive the Mobile Backhaul market over the next five years," Dell’Oro Group Senior Analyst Loren Shalinsky said in a press release. “The largest increase in mobile backhaul equipment revenues over the next five years will likely come from the Asia Pacific and EMEA regions, as these areas grow their cellular subscriber base as well as prepare for next-generation cellular network technologies like HSPA+ and LTE."
