Small Cell Backhaul Market by Access Technology Generation (2G, 3G, and 4G/LTE), by Backhaul Technology (Copper, Fiber, Millimeter wave, Microwave, Sub-6 GHz, and Satellite) - Worldwide Market Forecasts and Analysis (2014 2019)
[170 Pages Report] The global Small Cell Backhaul Market size was USD 587.5 million in 2014 and is projected to reach USD 2.08 billion in 2019, growing at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 28.8% during the forecast period.
Small cell backhaul refers to the link providing connectivity between the small cells and the core/centralized network node (mobile telephone switching office or internet service provider), and is deployed for reliable, efficient transportation of traffic. The small cell backhaul solutions deliver operational simplicity for increased cell sites through a dependable, scalable infrastructure. Various solutions are designed to suit the small cell deployment location to address the traffic capacity demands and deliver enhanced communication experience. The traditional ways of backhauling are becoming obsolete because of scalability, capacity, alignment simplicity, and flexibility required for small cells. The shift in cell phone usage patterns and intense demand for data services is loading the network access infrastructure asserting the use of small form factor base stations and effective backhaul traffic routing. With operators keen on enriching the quality of experience and retaining customers, the Small Cell Backhaul Market is witnessing growth in demand. These solutions address the increased capacity requirements and provide ubiquitous access to information and communication services.
As mobile operators consider deployment of small cells to complement the existing macrocells network infrastructure to enhance the coverage and capacity, they are strategically analyzing the small cell backhaul solutions. While operators look forward to availing customized and cost effective solutions, the small cell backhaul solution providers are designing and developing agile solutions with robust capabilities to extend support for large deployments and offer an end-to-end solution to mobile operators. The ecosystem players are consolidating their position in the highly competitive market through mergers and technology acquisitions, partnerships, to build good-for-all-requirements solutions and attain better market visibility.
MarketsandMarkets believes that the changing user behavior and capacity evolution, along with the inclusion of quality of experience attributes to quality of service are propelling the growth in the Small Cell Backhaul Market. Though the adoption of these solutions is gradual, due to concerns about total cost of ownership, small cell deployment location, trained labor, and spectrum availability, these solutions are destined to witness wide acceptance across the globe. The convenience of small form factor, street level coverage, and increased capacity provisioning that the small cell technology solutions provide is expected to bring more demand for these solutions. To serve an audience with different solution requirements, the solution providers and their industry partners understand the small cell deployment scenarios to develop a range of solutions that suit the set of requirements encompassing network topology and architecture, coverage and capacity, cost, and power consumption. The amalgamation of backhaul solutions with the small cell network infrastructure will improve the spectrum utilization, enhance delivery of information and communication services, and enrich the user experience.
The research report is a comprehensive study of the global Small Cell Backhaul Market solutions. The report forecasts the revenues and trends in the following sub-markets:
On the basis of access technology generation:
- 2G
- 3G
- 4G/LTE
On the basis of transmission medium:
- Wired
- Wireless
On the basis of backhaul technology:
- Copper
- Fiber
- Millimeter wave
- Microwave
- Sub-6 GHz
- Satellite
- Network services
- Integration services
- Professional services
On the basis of regions:
- North America (NA)
- Europe (EU)
- Middle East and Africa (MEA)
- Asia-Pacific (APAC)
- Latin America (LA)
The solutions offered by Small Cell Backhaul Market are experiencing a rapid adoption pace as they support the network operators to address the needs of surging mobile data demand around the world. These solutions complement the existing congested network infrastructure and deliver increased capacity and coverage to adapt to the end-user demand for bandwidth and offload excess traffic. These solutions play a cardinal role in providing seamless, uninterrupted service to subscribers thus improving subscriber retention. The solutions are rated to be responsive and scalable to match the small cell location requirements. The solutions are used at hot-spots as well as not-spots to build a robust communication network. These solutions assist in creating a more efficient (3G, 4G/LTE) network infrastructure with no dropped calls and high speed data connections. Overall, it supports network operators to deal with multiple factors such as, coverage, capacity, scalability, security, and quality of service and user experience.
The Small Cell Backhaul Market has empowered the network operators across the globe to focus on their core business functions of delivering novel voice and data services by relying upon the pervasive coverage and capacity capabilities these solutions convey. With communication technology innovations, these solutions have become viable and cost effective to deploy with sophisticated Radio Frequency (RF) engineering, network planning, and reduced installation time. With the increasing consumer dependence on mobile data services, the operators and network infrastructure providers have aligned their resources to improve the capacity and coverage of their network, and thus retain customers.
Small cell backhaul solutions have emerged to support the existing macro-cellular environment that has been strained due to increasing data traffic demand. These solutions support the sophistication of available communication network infrastructure to suit the changing customer needs and operators service offerings. Even though design and spectrum availability for backhauling techniques associated with small cells pose a challenge, the access to customized backhaul solutions depending upon the small cell location requirements are gradually building up demand for these solutions. Deployment of well-suited small cells with appropriate backhauling provision has become a priority of operators to mitigate traffic load accommodating high voice and data usage.
The solutions like small cell backhaul improve spectrum utilization and deliver high data performance, enriching user experience. The global adoption scenario of small cell backhaul solutions by operators to evolve their networks to 3G, 4G/LTE is an indication of its optimistic growth in future. They are well-marketed by network infrastructure providers, system integrators, and early adopters that are planning to excel with enhanced capacity, coverage, and high data speeds to tap new revenue streams.
MarketsandMarkets expects an increasing uptake of the small cell backhaul solutions all over the world by network operators to efficiently and effectively cater to the increasing data traffic and growing data services demand. The adoption of these solutions is proliferating, as operators focus on improved quality of experience, pervasive coverage, and capacity concerns. These solutions are expected to gain traction with customers selection criterions aligning to better data performance, coherent coverage, and seamless connectivity instigating operators to strengthen their existing network.
MarketsandMarkets forecasts the Small Cell Backhaul Market to grow from $587.5 million in 2014 to $2.08 billion in 2019, at a CAGR of 28.8% during the forecast period. The overall size of the market equals to the sum of the revenues from equipments and services. The services refer to the network, integration, and consulting services for the backhaul solutions.
Small Cell Backhaul, Market Size, 2014 2019 ($Million)
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Table Of Contents
1 Introduction (Page No. - 20)
1.1 Objectives
1.2 Report Description
1.3 Markets Covered
1.4 Stakeholders
1.5 Research Methodology
1.5.1 Key Data
1.5.2 Data Triangulation and Market Forecasting
1.6 Forecast Assumptions
2 Executive Summary (Page No. - 28)
2.1 Abstract
2.2 Overall Market Size
3 Small Cell Backhaul Market Overview (Page No. - 31)
3.1 Market Definition
3.2 Market Evolution
3.3 Small Cell Backhaul Life Cycle
3.4 Market Segmentation
3.5 Use Cases
3.5.1 Indoor
3.5.2 Outdoor
3.6 Backhaul Technologies
3.6.1 Introduction
3.6.2 Copper
3.6.3 Fiber
3.6.4 Millimeter Wave
3.6.5 Microwave
3.6.6 Sub-6 GHZ
3.6.7 Satellite
3.7 Market Dynamics
3.7.1 Drivers
3.7.1.1 Increase in Data Traffic
3.7.1.2 Deployment of Small Cell Base Stations
3.7.1.3 Communication Technology Upgrade
3.7.2 Challenges
3.7.2.1 Spectrum Availability
3.7.2.2 Network Planning and Installation
3.7.3 Opportunities
3.7.3.1 Advanced Management and Self-Configuration
3.7.3.2 Fronthaul Solutions
3.7.4 Impact Analysis of Market Dynamics
3.8 Value Chain
4 Small Cell Backhaul Market Size and Forecast By Access Technology Generation (Page No. - 46)
4.1 Introduction
4.2 2G
4.2.1 Overview
4.2.2 Market Size and Forecast By Region
4.2.3 Market Size and Forecast By Transmission Medium
4.3 3G
4.3.1 Overview
4.3.2 Market Size and Forecast By Region
4.3.3 Market Size and Forecast By Transmission Medium
4.4 4G/LTE
4.4.1 Overview
4.4.2 Market Size and Forecast By Region
4.4.3 Market Size and Forecast By Transmission Medium
5 Small Cell Backhaul Market Size and Forecast By Transmission Medium (Page No. - 63)
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Wired
5.2.1 Overview
5.2.2 Market Size and Forecast By Technology
5.2.3 Market Size and Forecast By Access Technology Generation
5.2.4 Market Size and Forecast By Region
5.3 Wireless
5.3.1 Overview
5.3.2 Market Size and Forecast By Technology
5.3.3 Market Size and Forecast By Access Technology Generation
5.3.4 Market Size and Forecast By Region
6 Small Cell Backhaul Market Size and Forecast By Services (Page No. - 79)
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Network Services
6.2.1 Overview
6.2.2 Market Size and Forecast By Transmission Medium
6.2.3 Market Size and Forecast By Access Technology Generation
6.3 Integration Services
6.3.1 Overview
6.3.2 Market Size and Forecast By Transmission Medium
6.3.3 Market Size and Forecast By Access Technology Generation
6.4 Professional Services
6.4.1 Overview
6.4.2 Market Size and Forecast By Transmission Medium
6.4.3 Market Size and Forecast By Access Technology Generation
7 Small Cell Backhaul Market Size and Forecast By Region (Page No. - 95)
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Parfait Chart
7.3 North America (NA)
7.3.1 Overview
7.3.2 Market Size and Forecast By Services
7.3.3 Market Size and Forecast By Technology
7.4 Europe (Eu)
7.4.1 Overview
7.4.2 Market Size and Forecast By Services
7.4.3 Market Size and Forecast By Technology
7.5 Asia Pacific (APAC)
7.5.1 Overview
7.5.2 Market Size and Forecast By Services
7.5.3 Market Size and Forecast By Technology
7.6 Middle East and Africa (MEA)
7.6.1 Overview
7.6.2 Market Size and Forecast By Services
7.6.3 Market Size and Forecast By Technology
7.7 Latin America (LA)
7.7.1 Overview
7.7.2 Market Size and Forecast By Services
7.7.3 Market Size and Forecast By Technology
8 Small Cell Backhaul Market Landscape (Page No. - 129)
8.1 Competitive Landscape
8.1.1 Ecosystem and Roles
8.1.2 Product Portfolio Comparison
8.2 End User Landscape
8.2.1 Market Opportunity Landscape
8.2.2 End User Analysis
8.2.2.1 Global Mobile Data Traffic Is Expected to Reach 190 Eb By 2018
8.2.2.2 Small Cell Market to Reach $3.1 Billion By 2018
9 Company Profiles (Overview, Products & Services, Strategies & Insights, Developments and MNM View)* (Page No. - 134)
9.1 Alcatel-Lucent
9.2 Cisco Systems, Inc.
9.3 Ericsson
9.4 Fujitsu
9.5 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
9.6 JDS Uniphase Corporation
9.7 NEC Corporation
9.8 Nokia Solutions and Networks
9.9 Tellabs
9.10 Zte Corporation
*Details on Overview, Products & Services, Strategies & Insights, Developments and MNM View Might Not Be Captured in Case of Unlisted
Companies.
List of Tables (76 Tables)
Table 1 Small Cell Backhaul Market Size, 2014 2019 ($Million, Y-O-Y %)
Table 2 Market Size, By Access Technology Generation, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 3 Market Growth, By Access Technology Generation, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 4 2G Access Technology Generation, Market Size, By Region, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 5 2G Access Technology Generation, Market Growth, By Region, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 6 2G Access Technology Generation, Market Size, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 7 2G Access Technology Generation, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 8 3G Access Technology Generation, Market Size, By Region, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 9 3G Access Technology Generation, Market Growth, By Region, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 10 3G Access Technology Generation, Market Size, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 11 3G Access Technology Generation, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 12 4G/LTE Access Technology Generation, Market Size, By Region, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 13 4G/LTE Access Technology Generation, Market Growth, By Region, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 14 4G/LTE Access Technology Generation, Market Size, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 15 4G/LTE Access Technology Generation, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 16 Small Cell Backhaul Market Size, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 17 Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 18 Wired Transmission Medium, Market Size, By Technology, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 19 Wired Transmission Medium, Market Growth, By Technology, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 20 Wired Transmission Medium, Market Size, By Access Technology Generation, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 21 Wired Transmission Medium, Market Growth, By Access Technology Generation, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 22 Wired Transmission Medium, Market Size, By Region, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 23 Wired Transmission Medium, Market Growth, By Region, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 24 Wireless Transmission Medium, Market Size, By Technology, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 25 Wireless Transmission Medium, Market Growth, By Technology, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 26 Wireless Transmission Medium, Market Size, By Access Technology Generation, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 27 Wireless Transmission Medium, Market Growth, By Access Technology Generation, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 28 Wireless Transmission Medium, Market Size, By Region, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 29 Wireless Transmission Medium, Market Growth, By Region, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 30 Small Cell Backhaul: Market Size, By Services, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 31 Small Cell Backhaul Market Growth, By Services, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 32 Network Services, Market Size, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 33 Network Services, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 34 Network Services, Market Size, By Access Technology Generation, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 35 Network Services, Market Growth, By Access Technology Generation, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 36 Integration Services, Market Size, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 37 Integration Services, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 38 Integration Services, Market Size, By Access Technology Generation, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 39 Integration Services, Market Growth, By Access Technology Generation, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 40 Professional Services, Market Size, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 41 Professional Services, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 42 Professional Services, Market Size, By Access Technology Generation, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 43 Professional Services, Market Growth, By Access Technology Generation, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 44 Small Cell Backhaul: Market Size, By Region, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 45 Small Cell Backhaul Market Growth, By Region, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 46 North America, Market Size, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 47 North America, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 48 North America, Market Size, By Services, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 49 North America, Market Growth, By Services, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 50 North America, Market Size, By Technology, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 51 North America, Market Growth, By Technology, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 52 Europe, Small Cell Backhaul Market Size, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 53 Europe, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 54 Europe, Market Size, By Services, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 55 Europe, Market Growth, By Services, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 56 Europe, Market Size, By Technology, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 57 Europe, Market Growth, By Technology, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 58 Asia-Pacific, Small Cell Backhaul Market Size, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 59 Asia-Pacific, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 60 Asia-Pacific, Market Size, By Services, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 61 Asia-Pacific, Market Growth, By Services, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 62 Asia-Pacific, Market Size, By Technology, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 63 Asia-Pacific, Market Growth, By Technology, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 64 Middle East and Africa, Small Cell Backhaul Market Size, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 65 Middle East and Africa, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 66 Middle East and Africa, Market Size, By Services, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 67 Middle East and Africa, Market Growth, By Services, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 68 Middle East and Africa, Market Size, By Technology, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 69 Middle East and Africa, Market Growth, By Technology, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 70 Latin America, Small Cell Backhaul Market Size, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 71 Latin America, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 72 Latin America, Market Size, By Services, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 73 Latin America, Market Growth, By Services, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 74 Latin America, Market Size, By Technology, 2014 2019 ($Million)
Table 75 Latin America, Market Growth, By Technology, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Table 76 Small Cell Backhaul: Product Portfolio Comparison
List of Figures (48 Figures)
Figure 1 Research Methodology
Figure 2 Data Triangulation
Figure 3 Small Cell Backhaul Market Size, 2014 2019 ($Million, Y-O-Y %)
Figure 4 Market Evolution
Figure 5 Life Cycle
Figure 6 Market Segmentation
Figure 7 Time Impact Analysis of Market Dynamics
Figure 8 Value Chain
Figure 9 Small Cell Backhaul: Market Growth, By Access Technology Generation, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 10 2G Access Technology Generation, Market Growth, By Region, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 11 2G Access Technology Generation, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 12 3G Access Technology Generation, Market Growth, By Region, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 13 3G Access Technology Generation, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 14 4G/LTE Access Technology Generation, Market Growth, By Region, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 15 4G/LTE Access Technology Generation, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 16 Small Cell Backhaul Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 17 Wired Transmission Medium, Market Growth, By Technolgy, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 18 Wired Transmission Medium, Market Growth, By Access Technology Generation, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 19 Wired Transmission Medium, Market Growth, By Region, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 20 Wireless Transmission Medium, Market Growth, By Technology, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 21 Wireless Transmission Medium, Market Growth, By Access Technology Generation, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 22 Wireless Transmission Medium, Market Growth, By Region, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 23 Small Cell Backhaul Market Growth, By Services, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 24 Network Services, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 25 Network Services, Market Growth, By Access Technology Generation, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 26 Integration Services, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 27 Integration Services, Market Growth, By Access Technology Generation, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 28 Professional Services, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 29 Professional Services, Market Growth, By Access Technology Generation, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 30 Small Cell Backhaul: Market Growth, By Region, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 31 Parfait Chart
Figure 32 North America, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 33 North America, Market Growth, By Services, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 34 North America, Market Growth, By Technology, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 35 Europe, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 36 Europe, Market Growth, By Services, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 37 Europe, Market Growth, By Technology, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 38 Asia-Pacific, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 39 Asia-Pacific, Market Growth, By Services, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 40 Asia-Pacific, Market Growth, By Technology, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 41 Middle East and Africa, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 42 Middle East and Africa, Market Growth, By Services, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 43 Middle East and Africa, Market Growth, By Technology, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 44 Latin America, Market Growth, By Transmission Medium, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 45 Latin America, Market Growth, By Services, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 46 Latin America, Market Growth, By Technology, 2014 2019 (Y-O-Y %)
Figure 47 Small Cell Backhaul Market Ecosystem
Figure 48 Opportunity Plot for Backhaul Technologies
Growth opportunities and latent adjacency in Small Cell Backhaul Market