Agilent Measurement Journal - Issue 3 - 2007 - (Page 27)

Realizing the true global potential of WiMAX and the business opportunities it foretells will require innovation in the development and commercialization of WiMAX. Just as critically, it will require innovation in the test and measurement solutions that will enable the technology to succeed in the real world. Doing so will not only propel manufacturers, network operators and service providers toward an enhanced customer experience, but more and more it will help to create a new means of connectivity that will redeﬁne the way in which we, as a global society, communicate. References 1. More information is available at www.agilent.com/ﬁnd/wimax “WiMAX,” “Mobile WiMAX” and “WiMAX Forum” are trademarks of the WiMAX Forum. WiMAX deployment around the world There is little doubt that WiMAX is increasingly being embraced by countries worldwide. Consider, for example, that trials and commercial deployments are currently ongoing around the world and that services are now being rolled out in Europe, India, Puerto Rico, Russia, South Korea and the United States. And that’s just the beginning: According to analysts with the Dell’Oro Group, the Mobile WiMAX market will grow by a compounded annual growth rate exceeding 50 percent through 2011. With announcements of new deployments coming almost daily, it is easy to see how such growth might actually be possible. Firms such as WiMAX Telecom in Europe, Yozan in Japan and Enforta in Russia already offer commercial services over ﬁxed WiMAX networks. Many operators are either planning similar ﬁxed systems or biding their time while Mobile WiMAX equipment makes its way through the certiﬁcation process. Also on the horizon are deployments in France, Germany, Greece and Italy, where plans are now underway to sell WiMAX spectrum licenses. Sweden’s telecommunications regulator has even announced that in the fourth quarter of 2007 it will hold an auction of licenses for WiMAX wireless broadband access in the 3.6 to 3.8 GHz frequency band. As of June 2006, a popular WiMAX market tracking database listed more than 200 operators as either planning WiMAX rollouts or already deploying trial or commercial systems (Figure 1). Additionally, it counted over 117 total networks in the world, with 14 new networks planned for North America, not including Sprint’s widely publicized multi-billion dollar WiMAX rollout. With such positive growth, it’s no wonder that many analysts expect ﬁxed WiMAX to become as widely used as DSL or cable modem, and Mobile WiMAX to enable the long-touted delivery of triple-play applications offering voice, data and video services. WiMAX network deployments by region, June 2006 ■ Commercial ■ Licensed ■ Planned/deployment ■ Trial 25 20 15 10 5 0 Asia- Middle Western Eastern North Latin Europe Europe America America Pacific East Africa Figure 1. This chart, courtesy of TeleGeography, highlights recent deployments, with the most networks being planned and trialed in the Asia Paciﬁc region. Agilent Measurement Journal 27 http://www.agilent.com/nd/wimax

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Applying Ingenuity to the Measurement of Emerging Technologies Contents Emerging Innovations Department Delivering Bigger Benefits by Optimizing Customer Workflows Measuring Material Properties at the Nanoscale Utilizing In Situ Atomic Force Microscopy in Life Science, Pharmaceutical and other Bio-Related Applications WiMAX™: Plotting a New Path to Global Mobility Addressing the Triple Complexity of Triple-Play Networks What Next for Mobile Telephony? Exploring the Inner Workings of Tire-Pressure Monitoring Systems Developing, Assessing and Applying a High-Resolution Thin-Film Magnetic Probe Making Accurate Settling-Time Measurements Using a Vector Network Analyzer Applying Metabolomics Methods to the Study of Bacterial Leaf Blight in Rice Plants Measuring Stream Dynamics with Fiber Optics survey

Agilent Measurement Journal - Issue 3 - 2007

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