Major players in the 4G infrastructure equipment market are Airspan Networks Inc. , Cisco, Fujitsu Limited, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. , Motorola Solutions, Inc. , Nokia Corporation, ZTE Corporation. , Nortel Networks Corporation,, Alvarion Technologies, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Datang Mobile Communications Equipment,, Nokia Siemens Networks, Samsung Electronics, Altiostar Networks, Inc.
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,, Altran Technologies, SA,, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.,, Ciena Corporation,, Lumentum, Acacia Comms, Ciena, Ericsson, Finisar, Juniper Networks and Infinera. The global 4G infrastructure equipment market is expected grow from $54.33 billion in 2021 to $58.21 billion in 2022 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.1%. The growth is mainly due to the companies resuming their operations and adapting to the new normal while recovering from the COVID-19 impact, which had earlier led to restrictive containment measures involving social distancing, remote working, and the closure of commercial activities that resulted in operational challenges. The market is expected to reach $76.73 billion in 2026 at a CAGR of 7.1%. The 4G infrastructure equipment market consists of sales of 4G infrastructure equipment which produces technologies and services that are used to facilitate people’s communication by increasing network capacity and faster data transmission rates. The sales consists of revenues generated by establishments that are primarily engaged in the manufacturing of 4G infrastructure equipment such as macrocell, small cell and distributed antenna system (DAS) and others. The main types of 4G infrastructure equipment are small cell; macro cell; distributed antenna system (DAS) and others.A Distributed Antenna System (DAS) employs multiple antennas rather than a single antenna to provide wireless coverage to the same area while using less total power and increasing reliability. The various product available are time division (TD) LTE; frequency-division duplexing LTE; LTE A that are used for logistics, e-commerce, virtual presence, crisis management, tele medicine and geo processing and others applications. Asia Pacific was the largest region in the 4G infrastructure equipment market in 2021.Western Europe was the second largest region in the 4G infrastructure equipment market. The regions covered in this report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East and Africa. Significant growth of network traffic is one of the major drivers for the growth of the 4G infrastructure equipment market.Network traffic is the amount of data that moves across the internet at any given time. The exponential rise in the number of internet users, which is nearly 57% of the global population coupled with the increase in smartphones and mobile devices (4.68 billion users) lead to network traffic growth. The global number of internet users is expected to reach 4.8 billion people by 2022, and this in turn will result in rise in network traffic. As per the statistics provided by Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI), the global IP traffic will reached an annual run rate of 2.3 Zettabytes in 2020. The emergence of new social media platforms and applications such as Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) is also expected to drive the rise in network traffic in the forecast period. To accommodate such huge network traffic and deliver strong network bandwidth, telecom operators are expanding their 4G infrastructure equipment, which is expected to drive the 4G infrastructure equipment market in the forecast period. The high cost involved in the deployment of distributed antenna systems (DAS) is expected to hamper the growth of the 4G infrastructure equipment market.According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the statistical arm of CDC, the number of Americans replacing landlines with wireless phones is increasing. In 2019, only 42% of Americans had landline phones as most of the people have switched from landline to cellular mobiles.This shows the increasing dependence on cellular connectivity and the demand for DAS as a solution for infrastructure-intensive cellular connectivity. However, the installation process of DAS is complex and expensive.DAS system requires investment of time, infrastructure, and capital. The cost ranges from $2 to $10 per sq. ft. of coverage. For example, if the size of a building is 100,000 sq. feet, installing an active DAS will cost from $500,000 to $1 million. This includes the cost of specialized equipment, installation, and cabling, and it can take several months to a year to install. The deployment of DAS in the major projects also involves intensive Radio-frequency (RF) engineering and Radio-frequency (RF) testing, that includes additional costs. The cost varies with the frequency range, whether it is very high frequency (VHF), ultrahigh-frequency (UHF), or 700–800 MHz for public safety. Therefore, high cost involved in DAS deployment is hampering the growth of 4G infrastructure equipment market. A digital distributed antenna system (DAS) is a network of antennas connected to a common source.DAS uses advanced digital signal processing to improve voice and data connectivity for end users. It can be used indoors or outdoors and can be used to provide wireless coverage in hotels, subways, airports, hospitals, businesses, roadway tunnels etc.The wireless, and advanced signal processing features have enabled the use of DAS as a reliable public safety radio communication service operation system. However, improving public safety coverage indoors is a long-standing challenge.Therefore, specialized in-building infrastructure is required to allow the two-way or trunked radio systems. Thus, Digital DAS is expected to enhance the growth of 4G infrastructure equipment market. In April 2019, Smartfren Telecom, a leading telecom service provider in Indonesia, partnered with ZTE Corporation for the expansion of 4G network.This partnership helped the company to offer an enhanced telecom network infrastructure in Indonesia. The improved coverage of 4G LTE network is playing a key role in market. The countries covered in the 4G infrastructure equipment market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK and USA.

4G Infrastructure Equipment Global Market Report 2022

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, ciena, Alcatel-Lucent, Samsung, CommScope, Corning, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Indus towers, ECI Telecom, Nortel, LG, HUBER+SUHNER, Telefonaktiebolaget, Extreme Networks, Inc., Ribbon Communications Operating Company, Inc, Altiostar Networks, Inc., Altran Technologies, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and ierra Wireless, Inc. The global 3G infrastructure equipment market is expected to grow from $30.08 billion in 2021 to $32.09 billion in 2022 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.2%. The change in growth trend is mainly due to the companies stabilizing their output after catering to the demand that grew exponentially during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. The market is expected to reach $39.44 billion in 2026 at a CAGR of 5.3%. The 3G infrastructure equipment market consists of the revenue generated by the sales of 3G infrastructure equipment by the company’s manufacturing the 3G infrastructure equipment. The 3G infrastructure equipment include switching equipment, transmission equipment, signaling equipment, private branch exchange phone system equipment, enterprise networking equipment, central office switching hardware, LAN modems, multi-user modems, and other data communications hardware such as bridges, routers, gateways, mobile devices and base stations. The main types of 3G Infrastructure equipment are wireless infrastructure and wired infrastructure.The integration of technology, software, support, security measures, and devices for the management and delivery of wireless communications is known as wireless infrastructure. The various products used include public switching equipment, analog equipment, digital equipment, transmission equipment, transmission lines, base transceiver stations, multiplexers, communication satellites and others by consumer electronics, BFSI, defense, media and other end users. The regions covered in this report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East and Africa. Growing number of mobile and wireless devices worldwide contributed to the growth of 3G infrastructure equipment market. The smartphone users was around 3.5 billion, making 45.04% of the world’s population in 2020. The total number of phone users, including smart and feature phones, reached 4.78 billion making 61.51% of world’s population in 2020. According to the IoT analytics research data, 22.2 billion devices worldwide were connected via WLAN worldwide by 2021. Increased usage of mobiles and dependence on internet therefore resulted in growing number of mobile and wireless devices worldwide driving the 3G infrastructure Equipment market. Growing demand for private LTE networks and deployment of 4G and 5G networks is hampering the growth of 3G infrastructure equipment.Government and modern business entities are inclined towards Private LTE and 5G networks to transform operations, increase automation and efficiency to deliver new services to their users. Private wireless LTE is enabling these transformations to take place even in dynamic, remote or highly secure environments while improved density, greater capacity is achieved by 5G networks.The deployment of private mobile networks based on LTE or 5G provides security and data control, improved access to services, improved quality of service, integration with wider public etc. Public safety applications will hold around 35% of the private LTE market share by 2024 as the rising number of public safety agencies shifting to private LTE networks for combating the demand for bandwidth-intensive applications according to global market insights. Airline companies are increasingly implementing Inflight connectivity as the consumers are choosing airlines based on internet speed and data usage charges.The ability to use smartphone during flight travel is among the top three considerations people have when choosing an airline as per research. Inflight connectivity help create an enjoyable inflight experience for passengers by providing entertainment along with airlines having the opportunity to reinvent inflight ecommerce and Inflight advertisement and promotion.For instance, in March 2020, the central government in India permitted airlines operating in India to provide in-flight Wi-Fi services to passengers. Increasing competition between airlines for providing satisfaction to their customers is driving the trend. In September 2020, Manevir, an American telecom software company acquired ip.access for an undisclosed amount. Mavenir’s radio and RAN portfolio will become a unified Multi-G single RAN approach based on Open RAN principles across 2G to 5G as a result of the acquisition. ip.access is an UK-based small cell provider specializing in 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G-ready solutions. The countries covered in the 3G infrastructure equipment market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK and USA.

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Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr advised Altiostar on the deal. Rakuten Group, Inc., a leading global innovation company in e-commerce, communications and fintech, and operator […]

Rakuten’s $1 Billion Acquisition of Altiostar Networks

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Rakuten Group has been working closely with Altiostar in Japan to roll out its virtualised RAN network in Japan since 2020
The growth of Rakuten’s relationship with Altiostar Networks clearly reflects the meteoric rise in interest surrounding Open RAN in recent years.The Group first invested in the US-based virtual RAN (vRAN) tech vendor back in May 2019, investing $114 million in what was a natural marriage between the specialist vendor and a company on the brink of launching their own fully virtualised mobile network in Japan…
The growth of Rakuten’s relationship with Altiostar Networks clearly reflects the meteoric rise in interest surrounding Open RAN in recent years. The Group first invested in the US-based virtual RAN (vRAN) tech vendor back in May 2019, investing $114 million in what was a natural marriage between the specialist vendor and a company on the brink of launching their own fully virtualised mobile network in Japan. Later, in September 2020, following the successful launch of Rakuten Mobile’s 4G and 5G networks, the operator increased its stake in Altiostar, purchasing Tech Mahindra’s 17.5% in the business for $45 million as part of a larger transaction. This move made Rakuten the majority shareholder in the company. Now, Rakuten has announced that it will acquire the remaining shares in Altiostar, valuing the company at an undisclosed sum greater than $1 billion. “We’re entering a new era where mobile network operators can choose how to build and deploy a network by working with the world’s most innovative software companies to create open and interoperable solutions,” said Rakuten Group CEO Mickey Mikitani. “We’re delighted to welcome the Altiostar team to the Rakuten family as we share a common passion for empowering mobile networks through disruptive innovation, offering mobile operators around the world secure, cost-effective and highly agile technology.”
“Open RAN architecture and virtualization are key to building software-centric networks that can scale and adapt to meet an explosion of devices and applications driving service velocity and profits. Becoming a Rakuten Group company will allow us to build on our foundation and accelerate our technology development to help operators to innovate, explore new business models and bring affordable broadband to the masses through web-scale mobile networks,” said Altiostar Networks CEO, Ashraf Dahod, who will remain in his position post-acquisition. Altiostar’s suite of Open vRAN network functions will remain available to global operators as part of the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP). Want to keep up to date with the latest developments in the world of telecoms? Subscriber to receive Total Telecom's daily newsletter  here
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TEWKSBURY , MA -- July 9 , 2021 Altiostar today congratulated its partner Rakuten Mobile for winning two 2021 Global Mobile awards , known as the Oscars of the mobile industry , for its 5G Open RAN on Kubernetes solution at the GSMA Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona last week .

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`` This is a significant milestone for the Rakuten and Altiostar partnership towards commercial realization of a high performing , cloud-native 5G RAN architecture , '' said Ashraf Dahod , CEO of Altiostar .

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Altiostar Networks provides Virtual RAN (vRAN) with Ethernet front haul, for software-intensive LTE eNodeB. Its solution is designed to improve quality of experience, enhance spectral efficiency and significantly reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

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