Athens, Greece, New York City, NY and Singapore, October 29, 2013 – Market research firm ExelixisNet and advisory services firm Xona Partners have released their 2013 small cell deployment strategies report: “Small Cells New Order – a global status report.” The report reveals mobile operators plans for small cell network deployments and the new innovations that they will be relying on to make their investment in those networks a success.
Elias Aravantinos, Lead Analyst at ExelixisNet commented, “Densification of mobile networks has been talked about for nearly 10 years and the most recent manifestation of that vision – carrier deployed outdoor small cells – has been highly anticipated, but delayed. So what is the hold up? In this report we surveyed operators across the Americas and EMEA and the answers were surprising but encouraging: small cell network deployments are imminent but at the same time the first movers will be establishing a new order around how networks will be built in the future. This is disruptive for small cell equipment vendors.”
Small Cells New Order:  SELECTED KEY FINDINGS
  • Over 50% of the surveyed operators say they want to deploy small cells in 2014.
  • Cost is the fundamental challenge to small cell deployments. Half the of the surveyed operators have not yet fully ascertained the value proposition for small cells and are still working on the cost model for small cell deployments.
  • Operators are keeping an open mind to solving the small cell backhaul challenge with many solutions in trials. The report compares the backhaul technologies and identifies the leading vendors in each category.
  • Operators are asking overwhelmingly (over 50% of cases) for multimode LTE, 3G, and Wi-Fi outdoor small cells. This puts tremendous pressure on the backhaul network capacity.
Frank Rayal, Partner at Xona Partners added, “Evolving the current wireless network to a heterogeneous architecture that includes large and small cells running multiple access technologies is a major undertaking. Small cells are a catalyst for a wave of innovations that define the network of the future. Operators are in the process of implementing the fundamental technologies that will make operating this network cost effective. In our report, we reveal the vendors that operators have identified as ones with innovative approaches to the small cell deployment challenge.”
Small Cells New Order – a global status report runs to 40 pages. This report provides answers from the perspective of leading operators on fundamental questions to small cell deployments such as:
  • What type of heterogeneous network meets operators’ operational expectations?
  • What do operators see as the challenges holding up small cell deployments?
  • Will operators deploy small cells in the same spectrum used for macro cells?
  • What type of small cells will be deployed?
  • What operators see as their primary small cell backhaul and how they rank the different solutions?
  • Which vendors are operators considering for each backhaul technology?
Download the Brochure from here: ExelixisNet_Small_Cell report_brochure
Press Contact:
Elias Aravantinos, Lead Analyst
earavantinos@exelixisnet.com
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