IDC's Wireless and Mobile Network Infrastructure service analyzes the opportunities and challenges facing network equipment vendors selling to wireless and mobile network operators worldwide. Global in scope, the service covers all generations of wireless and mobile network infrastructure: 2G, 2.5G, and 3G. It focuses on infrastructure products that enable advanced voice and data services and surveys network operators to assess their technology requirements, network migration strategies, and deployment time lines.

This service covers the following segments of the worldwide wireless and mobile network infrastructure market:

• Radio access network equipment for 2G, 2.5G, and 3G wireless networks
• Core network equipment for 2G, 2.5G, and 3G
• Radio and base station systems
• SGSNs, GGSNs, and PDSNs
• Messaging and location-based technologies

Throughout the year, this service will address the following topics:

• Market drivers and challenges to deployment of 2G, 2.5G, and 3G networks
• Technical, regulatory, economic, and social issues relative to 2G, 2.5G, and 3G wireless
• 2G, 2.5G, and 3G technologies and standards
• Network migration strategies of network operators
• Competitive profiles of selected wireless infrastructure vendors
• Key applications driving the demand for advanced mobile networks
• Competing network architectures and their effects on migration to 3G wireless
• Mobility and transformation of the core network

Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. What is the market for 2G, 2.5G, and 3G wireless infrastructure by segment and geographic region?
2. How will operator strategies for migration to 3G networks differ across geographic regions?
3. How will emerging technologies affect the evolution of the mobile network infrastructure?
4. What are the leading vendor selection criteria of key wireless operators?
5. Which equipment vendors are best positioned to gain market share among network operators?
6. How is the wireless infrastructure evolving to enable messaging and location-based services?

IDC's Wireless and Mobile Network Infrastructure service examines how infrastructure providers are positioning themselves to compete in the 2G, 2.5G, and 3G markets. This service reviews strategies, market positioning, and future direction of several vendors in the market for wireless and mobile network infrastructure, including 3Com, Agilent, Airvana, Alcatel, Brooktrout Technologies, Cisco, CMG, Comverse, Cyneta, Ericsson, Flarion, Fujitsu, HP-Compaq, IBM, Intel, Interwave, Juniper, LG Electronics, Logica, Lucent, Marconi, Megisto, Mitsubishi, Motorola, NEC, NMS, Nokia, Nortel, Openwave, Qualcomm, Samsung, Siemens, Spatial Wireless, Starent, Sun, Tahoe Networks, Tellabs, Watercove, Winphoria, and others.

The service also tracks network deployment and migration strategies of major mobile network operators in various regions of the world, including AT&T Wireless, Cingular, KDDI, Nextel, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, SK Telecom, Sprint, Telefonica, TIM, T-Mobile, Verizon, Vodafone, VoiceStream, and others.

Throughout the year, this service will offer insight into the latest trends affecting the wireless infrastructure market.

Potential studies include:

Operator Spending on Mobile Network Infrastructure: Forecast and Analysis

This document provides a five-year forecast of 2G, 2.5G, and 3G network infrastructure spending by mobile network operator, technology standard, and geographic region.

The Core Mobility Report

This study provides a five-year forecast of the key core network elements and analyzes the competitive positioning of vendors in the core mobility space.

The CDMA Report

This study analyzes the state of the global CDMA infrastructure and reviews the competitive positioning and market prospects of leading CDMA equipment vendors.

Reach Out and Touch Someone: An Overview of the Messaging Industry

This document analyzes the state of the global messaging industry and reviews technologies and vendors and examines their market prospects.

Emerging Technologies, Emerging Players

This document reviews emerging technologies and their potential disruptive effect on current mobile networks and equipment vendors. New market entrants in the radio access network (RAN) and core network are also profiled.

Operators' Infrastructure Buying Criteria

This study documents the result of interviews with leading network operators with respect to their vendor selection and infrastructure buying criteria.

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