The rapidly increasing
adoption of 4G and Wi-Fi across the world is game changer in our ever-connected
world where, it is exciting to see that, mobile broadband operators densify
networks to meet this mobile traffic surge, and where the majority of mobile
traffic is originating or terminating indoors. One can then observe, the Wi-Fi
is increasingly a robust access technology for mobile data offload.
ABI Research predicts that by 2018, Wi-Fi traffic will exceed all 2G,
3G and 4G cellular traffic combined, and the rapidly increasing adoption of 4G
and Wi-Fi will drive monthly in-building traffic to 53 exabytes per month by
2020.
Others key dynamics refer to
the realities that:
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The enterprise and commercial segments, sports venues, transportation and
healthcare verticals continue to transport the most traffic, with shopping
malls and hospitality,
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The Asia-Pacific region is likely to continue to consume almost half of the
worldwide in-building wireless traffic throughout the forecast period. This is
due to the region’s large population and extensive Wi-Fi and 4G deployments,
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Distributed Antenna Systems have now become a must-have for handling mobile
and Wi-Fi traffic,
According to ABI Research, North America continues to show the most DAS
spend, followed by the Asia-Pacific region and then Europe. Leading companies
in the DAS market include Alcatel-Lucent, Cobham, Cisco, CommScope, Corning,
Dali Wireless, Ericsson, JMA Wireless, Nokia Networks, Wireless Telecom Group
and Zinwave.