US Public Safety: A New Era of Wireless Networks

Abstract

Visant studies are the result of primary and secondary research. Analysts gather information via interviews with marketing and engineering executives and through corporate reports, databases, and other secondary sources. Evaluations are made based on the current performance of various components of a particular technology including need, market potential, technology evolution, maturation, price points and the companies and resources being put towards the development or deployment.

“Public Safety: A New Era of Wireless Networks” is an assessment of the market for wireless networks and devices for use by public safety entities within the United States from 2007 through 2012. Emergency services, municipal, state, and federal institutions are all considered when deriving shipments and sales of emerging broadband and narrowband digital wireless technologies as well as for more traditional public safety platforms such as land mobile radio, satellites, point-to-point microwave use, and public cellular wireless networks. The impact of numerous wireless platforms are considered and evaluated, including Wi-Fi, mesh networks, civilian broadband wireless platforms (cellular, WiMAX), and SMR and ESMR radio technologies. Government legislation as well as US standards, frequency allocations and market and political drivers and trends are identified and assessed.

• Total wireless equipment revenues for US public safety
• Land mobile radio subscriber unit shipments and revenues
• Land mobile radio base station and repeater shipments and revenues
• Land mobile dispatch consoles and switches shipments and revenues
• Digital land mobile
• 4.9GHz network equipment shipments and revenues
• Satellite user device shipments and revenues
• Point-to-point microwave radio shipments and revenues

• Market drivers
• Next generation radio requirements
• SDR, mesh networks, cognitive radio
• Broadband wireless platforms
• Land mobile radio
• VoIP
• Trunked Radios
• Standards
• Frequency Allocations
• SMR and ESMR
• 4.9GHz developments
• Public safety paging and satellite use
• Point-to-point microwave radio
• Use of civilian networks for pubic safety
• Interdepartmental interoperability and security