Small Cell Backhaul Market worth $2.08 Billion by 2019, according new study on ASDReports

Monday 19 May 2014, Amsterdam

The new report on the Small Cell Backhaul Market ,available on ASDReports, defines and segments the small cell backhaul market into various sub-segments with an in-depth analysis and forecasting of revenues. The report also identifies the factors driving this market, various challenges, and opportunities impacting it along with the technology roadmap and adoption trends.

The new study broadly segments the small cell backhaul market on the basis of access technology generation, transmission medium, backhaul technology, services, and regions. The market is segmented by type of access technology generation: 2G, 3G, and 4G/LTE; by type of transmission medium: wired and wireless; by type of backhaul technology: copper, fiber, millimeter wave, microwave, Sub-6 GHz, and satellite. The small cell backhaul market is also segmented by type of services: network services, integration services, and professional services; and by regions: North America (NA), Europe (EU), Asia-Pacific (APAC), Middle East and Africa (MEA), and Latin America (LA).

Major forces driving this market are the rapid uptake of smart phones, increasing data traffic, deployment of small cell base stations, and the continuous up-gradations in communication network infrastructure technologies to provide innovative product offerings for flexibility, power efficiency, cost effectiveness, and deployment ease. As mobile operators consider deployment of small cells to complement the existing macrocells network infrastructure to enhance the coverage and capacity, they are strategically analyzing the small cell backhaul solutions. While operators look forward to availing customized and cost-effective solutions, the small cell backhaul solution providers are designing and developing agile solutions with robust capabilities to extend support for large deployments and offer an end-to-end solution to mobile operators. The small cell backhaul ecosystem players are consolidating their position in the highly competitive market through mergers and technology acquisitions, partnerships, to build good-for-all-requirements solutions and attain better market visibility.

The authors of the new study believe that the changing user behavior and capacity evolution, along with the inclusion of quality of experience attributes to quality of service are propelling the growth in the small cell backhaul market. Though the adoption of these solutions is gradual, due to concerns about total cost of ownership, small cell deployment location, trained labor, and spectrum availability, these solutions are destined to witness wide acceptance across the globe. The convenience of small form factor, street level coverage, increased capacity provisioning, and the support for efficient spectrum utilization that backhaul solutions provide is expected to bring more demand for these solutions. To serve an audience with different solution requirements, the small cell backhaul solution providers and their industry partners are understanding the small cell deployment scenarios to develop a range of solutions that suit the set of requirements encompassing network topology and architecture, coverage and capacity, and cost and power consumption. The amalgamation of backhaul solutions with the small cell network infrastructure will improve the spectrum utilization, enhance delivery of information and communication services, and enrich the user experience.

The study forecasts the small cell backhaul market to grow from $587.5 million in 2014 to $2.08 billion in 2019, at a CAGR of 28.8% during the forecast period. In terms of regions, NA is expected to be the biggest market in terms of revenue contribution, while MEA and APAC are expected to experience increased market traction during the forecast period.