Research Overview
Transition from One Generation to the Next Translates into Higher Revenues
The transition of the wireless world from 2G to 2.5G and finally to 3G networks is expected to present test vendors with significant opportunities arising out of the various challenges associated with this migration. For instance, conformance and interoperability issues are proving to be a major driver for verification, conformance, and interoperability tools. Growing demand for data services and a rapidly increasing wireless subscriber base ? especially in the Asia Pacific region ? augur well for the growth of wireless network monitoring products. Simultaneously, protocol analyzers are emerging as critical tools for wireless networks, particularly for use in troubleshooting.
This Frost & Sullivan research is a valuable resource for participants in the world wireless network monitoring and protocol analyzer markets. The study identifies and discusses the substantial growth opportunities arising out of the market transition toward 3G technology. It analyzes the impact of shifting technologies on these markets and offers insights into the strategies adopted by network operators to sustain revenue growth. Apart from this, the study provides a critical analysis of the regions and applications offering the most growth potential.
Vendors Need to Stay Abreast with Key Competitive Trends
Intense competition among operators has created a need for efficient monitoring and troubleshooting of wireless networks. While this boosts demand for appropriate testing solutions, it also compels test vendors to keep track of the changing competitive landscape in order to capitalize on available opportunities. There have also been significant changes in the wireless monitoring space in terms of company acquisitions and market share expansions.
"The competitive landscape has gone through some major changes in 2003/2004," remarks the analyst of this research service. "In such a dynamic and concentrated market, vendors will need to stay up-to-date with competitive information to design appropriate business development strategies, and thereby grow their revenues, profitability, market share, and brand name."
Wireless Network Monitoring and Protocol Analyzers Evolve Beyond Traditional Applications
There is increasing competition among operators and service providers to deliver improved quality of service (QoS) and enhanced data applications to consumers, and test vendors are gearing up to meet this need. "The growing need for service providers to ensure superior QoS to end users drives the need to have network and service assurance as a function of monitoring solutions," says the analyst. "Network monitoring and protocol analyzers play a pivotal role with the former used for QoS after deployment and the latter used to pinpoint errors in the lab and during the installation and deployment phase."
Network monitoring systems are, therefore, moving beyond traditional monitoring and troubleshooting functions to include service and customer assurance systems. Network monitoring products that address service level issues are likely to experience increased demand, as service providers increasingly focus on services such as short message service (SMS), multimedia messaging service (MMS), and push-to-talk.
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Highlights Significant Growth Opportunities Offered by Market Transition toward 3G
The wireless networking monitoring and protocol analyzer market is rapidly migrating from 2G to 2.5G and from 2.5G to 3G. This Frost & Sullivan study critically analyzes these technologies and their impact on the market. The analysis presents the shifting focus of mobile network equipment manufacturers and network operators and an insight into the long-term strategies adopted by them to sustain revenue growth.
Detailed Competitive Information Enables Companies to Shape their Market Shares
This research provides valuable information on the competitive landscape of the following wireless test markets: wireless network monitoring systems and wireless protocol analyzers (both monitoring and load/functional segments). In each of these markets, a competitive analysis is performed identifying major participants and potential share gainers and losers. The study caters to the requirements of wireless network monitoring and protocol analyzer vendors for critical competitive information.
Regional and End-user Analyses Identify Expansion Opportunities
The regional analysis provided in this research identifies the areas offering significant potential in the short as well as long term for the wireless network monitoring and protocol analyzer (monitoring) markets. Additionally, an in-depth end-user analysis identifies the future key customer types for monitoring protocol testers.
High-growth Applications Identified through Market Positioning Analysis
Product positioning holds the key to market success. Solid understanding of the market has made it possible for Frost & Sullivan to identify the applications offering the greatest growth potential for vendors of wireless network monitoring and protocol analyzers. This is likely to enable clients to focus efforts on marketing, branding, and product development, and positioning in that particular application.
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