| Chapter 1 Executive Summary |
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| Market Overview |
1-1 |
| Introduction |
1-1 |
| Market Segmentation |
1-1 |
| End Users Defined |
1-1 |
| Applications Defined |
1-2 |
| Geographic Regions Defined |
1-2 |
| Revenue Forecasts |
1-2 |
| Competitive Analysis |
1-2 |
| Major Research Findings |
1-3 |
| Opportunities and Forecasts |
1-3 |
| Market Segment Analysis |
1-4 |
| Revenue Analysis |
1-4 |
| Competitive Analysis |
1-5 |
| Wireless Protocol Analyzers (Monitoring and Troubleshooting) |
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| Market Segment |
1-5 |
| Load Stress Generators and Functional Testers Market Segment |
1-5 |
| Strategic Conclusions |
1-6 |
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| Chapter 2 Total Wireless Protocol Analyzer Market |
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| Market Overview |
2-1 |
| Overview and Definitions |
2-1 |
| Introduction |
2-1 |
| Segment Analysis |
2-1 |
| End-user Analysis |
2-2 |
| Application Analysis |
2-2 |
| Geographic Analysis |
2-2 |
| Market Engineering Measurements |
2-2 |
| Key Industry Challenges |
2-4 |
| End-user Consolidation Reducing Customer Base |
2-4 |
| Market Evolution Requiring Vendors to Support Various Technologies |
2-5 |
| Network Complexity Leading to Lack of Expertise |
2-5 |
| Industry Migrating to IP |
2-6 |
| Homegrown Solutions Competing with Third-party Tools |
2-6 |
| Key Industry Challenges (Suite) |
2-7 |
| Increasing Need from Operators for Single-test Tool, Moving their Demand from WPAs to WNMSs |
2-7 |
| Development Activities Being Transferred to the Far East |
2-7 |
| Business Case for Automation More Difficult to Make in Low-cost Labor Countries |
2-8 |
| Operators Outsourcing to Equipment Manufacturers |
2-8 |
| Chinese Government Postponing Decision in Regards to 3G Licenses |
2-9 |
| Market Drivers |
2-9 |
| Technology and Standard Evolution (IMS, mobile WiMax, 3GPP, HSUPA, HSDPA, |
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| LTE, and others) Requires New Test Products and/or Upgrades |
2-10 |
| Network Convergence and Related Complexity Drives the Need for Test Equipment |
2-11 |
| Outsourcing Drives Demand from Asia Pacific and Eastern Europe and South America at a Lower Extent |
2-12 |
| Customer Retention Requires Network Operators to Focus on Quality |
2-13 |
| Higher Processing Speeds Drive Demand for Load Stress Generators |
2-13 |
| Market Drivers (Suite) |
2-13 |
| Purchase of Wireless Protocol Analyzers as Part of the Network Infrastructure |
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| Will Drive Demand from NEMs |
2-13 |
| Growth of Chinese Equipment Manufacturers Generates Demand for WPAs |
2-14 |
| Expansion in Asia Pacific Generates Demand for WPAs |
2-14 |
| Data Services Drive Demand |
2-15 |
| Small Operators Use Protocol Analyzers as Monitoring Systems |
2-15 |
| Quality Issues Maintain Small Demand for GSM Load Generators |
2-15 |
| Market Restraints |
2-16 |
| M&As Reduce the Customer Base for WPAs |
2-17 |
| NOs Increasingly Move from Stand-alone Protocol Analyzers to Systems |
2-17 |
| Price Decline and Pressure Limits Market Growth |
2-17 |
| Reduced Number of Engineers in NOs’ Organizations Limit Market Growth |
2-18 |
| Outsourcing Reduces Demand in North America and Western Europe |
2-18 |
| Lack of Knowledge in End-user Organization Affects Demand for WPAs |
2-19 |
| End-user Budgets Limit Market Growth |
2-19 |
| Market Restraints (Suite) |
2-19 |
| Availability of Low-cost Labor Lowers Interest in Test Automation in Asia Pacific |
2-19 |
| Constraints on QoS Tools Spending Reduce Demand for WPAs |
2-20 |
| Outsourcing of Testing from SPs to Equipment Manufacturers Reduce Demand for WPAs from NOs |
2-20 |
| Reduction of Efforts from Equipment Manufacturers on WCDMA and UMTS |
2-20 |
| China Postpones Handing out of 3G Licenses |
2-21 |
| Delays in Deployments of Certain Technologies |
2-21 |
| M&As in Equipment Manufacturers Market Affect NOs as Well |
2-21 |
| Forecasts & Trends |
2-22 |
| Revenue Forecasts |
2-22 |
| Demand Analysis |
2-24 |
| Wireless Protocol Analyzer for Troubleshooting and Monitoring Analysis Segment |
2-24 |
| Load Stress Generators and Functional Testers Segment |
2-24 |
| Pricing Analysis |
2-25 |
| Wireless Protocol Analyzers for Troubleshooting and Monitoring Analysis Segment |
2-25 |
| Load Stress Generators and Functional Testers Segment |
2-25 |
| Market and Technology Trends |
2-26 |
| Market Share Analysis |
2-27 |
| Competitive Overview |
2-27 |
| Market Share Analysis |
2-28 |
| Market Leaders |
2-30 |
| Tektronix |
2-30 |
| NetHawk |
2-30 |
| Catapult Communications |
2-31 |
| Agilent Technologies |
2-31 |
| Other Market Participants |
2-31 |
| Aeroflex |
2-31 |
| Anritsu |
2-32 |
| Nexus Telecom |
2-32 |
| Prisma |
2-33 |
| RADCOM |
2-33 |
| Sunrise Telecom |
2-34 |
| ZCTT |
2-34 |
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| Chapter 3 Wireless Protocol Analyzer (Troubleshooting and Monitoring) Market |
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| Market Overview |
3-1 |
| Revenue Forecasts |
3-1 |
| Market Share Analysis |
3-2 |
| Application Analysis |
3-5 |
| Overall Trends by Application Type |
3-5 |
| Research and Development (R&D) |
3-6 |
| Manufacturing |
3-8 |
| Installation and Maintenance (I&M) |
3-9 |
| End-user Analysis |
3-11 |
| Overall Trends by End-user Type |
3-11 |
| Mobile Network Equipment Manufacturers |
3-12 |
| Mobile Network Operators |
3-14 |
| Other End-users |
3-16 |
| Geographic Analysis |
3-18 |
| Overall Trends by Region |
3-18 |
| North America |
3-20 |
| Europe |
3-21 |
| Asia Pacific |
3-23 |
| Rest-of-World |
3-25 |
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| Chapter 4 Wireless Protocol Analyzer (Load Stress Generator and Functional Tester) Market |
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| Market Overview |
4-1 |
| Revenue Forecasts |
4-1 |
| Revenue Forecasts by Sub-segment |
4-2 |
| Market Share Analysis |
4-6 |
| Application Analysis |
4-9 |
| Overall Trends by Application |
4-9 |
| Research and Development (R&D) |
4-10 |
| Manufacturing |
4-12 |
| Installation and Maintenance (I&M) |
4-13 |
| End-user Analysis |
4-15 |
| Overall Trends by End-user |
4-15 |
| Mobile Network Equipment Manufacturers |
4-16 |
| Mobile Network Operators |
4-18 |
| Other End users |
4-20 |
| Geographic Analysis |
4-22 |
| Overall Trends by Region |
4-22 |
| North America |
4-23 |
| Europe |
4-25 |
| Asia Pacific |
4-26 |
| Rest-of-World |
4-28 |
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| Chapter 5 Appendix |
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| Terms and Definitions |
5-1 |
| List of Acronyms |
5-1 |
| Decision Support Database |
5-2 |
| Mobile Subscribers |
5-2 |
| Mobile Penetration |
5-4 |
| Mobile Communication Spending |
5-7 |
| Mobile Communications ARPU |
5-9 |
| Telecommunications Equipment Spending |
5-12 |