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What is Broadband Wireless Access?
We have come a long way since 2.4 Kbytes modems used to be the solution to
transfer files from one PC to another. We now have the capability to generate
and process massive amounts of data from our desktop. An always-growing range of
applications leaves us craving more capacity. That is the underlying reason of
"Broadband" development. But there is one issue. Between the desktop
and the Fiber backbone is that stretch of the information highway, known as the
'last mile' or Access portion of the network.
"Broadband Access" can be served by several Broadband
technologies:
- Fiber is used in the last mile, where economics justify the time and cost.
But, less than 5% of office buildings are connected with Fiber or Coaxial
Cable.
- ADSL has gained a significant ground as it enables incumbent service
providers to capitalize on their installed copper local loop (especially to
serve residential users).
Financial analysts, recognizing Alcatel's leadership in the emerging
Broadband Wireless Access market have characterized Broadband Wireless as
"Alcatel's next DSL". Indeed, in the past months solid customers
relying on our leading-edge products available now for mass deployment have been
secured.
Broadband wireless offers both established and emerging service providers a
quick and cost-effective way to enter the local access market with solutions and
technologies designed to meet today's demand for the delivery of data, voice and
high speed Internet services, as well as tomorrow's demand for enhanced digital
telephony, video and multimedia services.
The Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) market encompasses all
Point-To-Multipoint radio access networks and technologies able to offer rates
of up to 40 Mb/s per End-User termination. High Speed Internet (HSI) services to
SMEs, SOHOs and, under specific conditions, residential users are among the main
drivers fuelling a sustained growth in demand for broadband wireless.
The BWA space includes a variety of technologies, frequency bands and related
markets ruled by regulators all over the world. As of today, the most strategic
frequency bands on a worldwide basis are the 3.5GHz, the 10 GHz and the 24-38GHz
bands. The latter is often referred to as Local Multipoint Distribution System (LMDS).
Alcatel has today two leading-edge product lines serving both the 3.5GHz and
LMDS market segments.
This leads to a New Market and Service Concept, based on Bandwidth, Multi
Service (Voice, Data…), and Quality of Service. But more importantly this
leads CAPs/CLECs to fast Return on Investment and quick capture of Market Share,
as BWA allows:
- High capacity: broadband wireless solutions aim at using large spectrum
with powerful dynamic bandwidth allocation mechanism, to support the
exponential growth in data communications and the tremendous demand for low
cost circuit services.
- Multi-service: spectrum is a rich virgin land from which any service can
grow, provided the right tool to work it is taken. A strong competitive
advantage of the wireless local loop is its ability to deliver a bouquet of
services to each end-user, tailored and bundled to its specific needs.
- Fast roll-out and early market capture: broadband wireless access
solutions are easy and speedy to implement, giving the first-mover
advantages: cherry-picking of the most profitable customers and top market
share.
- Low start-up costs: with no cables to lay, your development costs are low.
- On demand build-out: when demand increases, the broadband wireless access
solutions increase. Simply plug in more modules or add-up more cells and you
are in business.
- Fast payback: since your investment is low and deployment is fast, you
start seeing a return on your investment fast too.
"Global service revenues for broadband wireless are projected to reach
US $16B by 2004," says Jamie Mendelson, Senior Analyst, Strategis Group.
"This represents a compound annual growth rate of 140%."
As a conclusion, we can say that these wireless-based solutions meet a
growing and well spread need of our times. Therefore, they are key assets within
Alcatel's broadband access portfolio.
Processor performance will continue to improve, and fiber optics transmission
capacity will continue to increase. And likely, somewhere in the middle, you'll
find a broadband access solution from Alcatel.
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