Dell’Oro: 5G mobile backhaul equipment market at $3bn by 2024
Dell’Oro Group, leading independent market analysis and research firm for the Telecommunications, Enterprise Networks, and Data Center IT Infrastructure industries,
predicts that revenues from the sale of 5G mobile backhaul transport equipment will hit $3 billion by 2024. The market research firm’s Microwave Transmission & Mobile Backhaul 5-Year Forecast Report predicts that optical communications will see a significant share of the market, particularly in the early part of the five-year forecast period.
Jimmy Yu, responsible for the Optical Transport and Microwave Transmission & Mobile Backhaul Transport market research programs at Dell’Oro Group, identifies five key trends driving the optical backhaul transport market.
- Increased Fibre Backhaul, driven largely by the rollout of 5G.
- More Wireless Backhaul supporting higher bandwidth to cell sites.
- More Ethernet, increasingly replacing TDM-based systems and hybrid systems.
- Increased Fronthaul Transport to bridge spans between baseband and radio units.
- A larger number of carriers, with multiple carriers expected to be combined on single microwave backhaul links.
“The two options for boosting carriers are ‘multicarrier’ (combining carriers in the same frequency band) and multiband (combining disparate frequency bands such as E-band and 18 GHz, offering higher throughput). Both options offer higher link capacity with little change in tower footprint – and therefore related lease costs.”
“As 5G is increasingly rolled out, we will see more instances in which the mobile baseband unit is centrally housed further away from the mobile radio unit (and tower) to obtain greater efficiency. Operators will increasingly require fronthaul transport systems such as DWDM to bridge these longer spans.”
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