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- IDT Expands Wireless Infrastructure Portfolio with First in Family of RF Signal Path Solutions
- Broadcom Optimizes New Chip for $8B Mobile Backhaul Market
- Mobile entertainment industry in India to grow to $5 billion by 2015
| IDT Expands Wireless Infrastructure Portfolio with First in Family of RF Signal Path Solutions | Top |
| Integrated Device Technology, Inc., the Analog and Digital Company delivering essential mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, announced a digitally-controlled IF VGA with very high SNR for improved Quality of Service (QoS) for receiver systems located in cellular base stations and other wireless infrastructure equipment. The new device expands IDT's product offerings for base station equipment in the growing 4G wireless infrastructure market, which today includes high performance timing, RapidIO® solutions, and other devices from IDT's rich communications portfolio. The IDT F1200 digitally-controlled IF VGA offers a very low noise figure of less than 3.0 dB and a broad IDT F1200 Low-Noise IF VGA chip23 dB control range with 7-bit resolution, resulting in better QoS for cellular base stations. The extremely low distortion provides increased spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR), making the device flexible for use in myriad applications. In addition, the excellent gain accuracy makes it easy to digitally compensate, while the 200 ohm differential input and output impedances allow it to integrate seamlessly into the RF signal path, minimizing design effort and risk. "Our new IF VGA provides the high SNR and low distortion that the next generation of wireless receivers require, strengthening IDT's position to satisfy the growing demands of the 4G market," said Fred Zust, general manager and vice president of the Communications Division at IDT. "IDT's pervasive timing and RapidIO interconnect solutions give us excellent visibility and system knowledge to solve the common problems that face our customers. With our system-level approach to solving problems, expansion into the RF signal path was the next logical step. The IDT F1200 is the first in a series of RF signal path products that IDT plans to offer, providing our customers the edge they need to advance their products." (Globalpress 9th Electronics Summit 2011) | |
| Broadcom Optimizes New Chip for $8B Mobile Backhaul Market | Top |
| Broadcom Corporation has rolled out its latest StrataXGS high performance switch solution, designed specifically to manage the exponential growth in wireless data traffic and carrier transition to 4G mobile networks. Mobile backhaul expenditures are expected to reach $8 billion by 2014(5). With the striking rise in the number of smartphone and tablet users, existing backhaul networks are struggling to support the increasing requirements of high-bandwidth mobile video and data services. Leading carriers around the world have embarked on an aggressive strategy to upgrade their mobile networks in order to manage the explosive growth in traffic. Broadcom's latest high performance StrataXGS chip is capable of delivering 1000x more bandwidth(1), allowing carriers to easily upgrade legacy backhaul networks and transition to 4G. Highlights/Key Facts: * Smartphone penetration is expected to double during the next four years(2). * Smartphones require 10x more bandwidth than a normal feature phone(4). * Tablet PC sales are forecasted to reach 126 million units in 2015(3). * Tablet PCs generate 100 times more traffic than a feature phone(4). * Analyst firm Infonetics predicts mobile backhaul expenditures to reach $8B billion by 2014(5). * Ethernet is expected to be the dominant carrier technology by 2014, approaching 100 percent usage in mobile network base stations(5). * The Broadcom StrataXGS BCM56440 switch series provides a seamless migration path to Ethernet class performance in the mobile backhaul, delivering 1000x more bandwidth. * Devices are now sampling with production volume expected in calendar Q4 2011. Martin Lund, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Network Switch, Broadcom Corporation "The wireless market today is incredibly competitive, and carriers are under a great deal of pressure to deliver the best service in the industry. Our latest switch solution allows carriers to seamlessly migrate existing networks to 4G, with the capability of delivering much higher bandwidth and faster connectivity to the growing number of smartphone and tablet users — resulting in a much more satisfying end user experience." Michael Howard, Principal Analyst, Carrier & Data Center Networks Analyst, Infonetics "With the emergence of 4G, the last mile backhaul is critical because poor performance in the backhaul creates bottlenecks that limit growth and diminish quality of service. We anticipate mobile operator's spending on the mobile backhaul to grow substantially over the next several years as they develop an efficient and effective last mile backhaul. We are seeing the emergence of the Ethernet protocol as the most optimal solution to address the capacity and economic issues facing carriers today." (Globalpress 9th Electronics Summit 2011) | |
| Mobile entertainment industry in India to grow to $5 billion by 2015 | Top |
| The mobile entertainment industry in India is witnessing significant growth and a latest reseaarch forecasts this market to reach $4.9 billion in 2015 from $1.2 billion in 2009, growing at a CAGR of 26% in the period 2009-2015. The increased commoditization of voice services with rapidly declining voice tariffs is resulting in diminishing voice ARPU for Indian mobile operators, says Tavess report. To address this challenge and to earn additional revenues from existing customers, Indian mobile operators are increasing their focus on data services, primarily entertainment services such as mobile music, gaming and video/tv. Mobile music is the most demanded entertainment service by the Indian consumers with ring back tones and ring tones being the most popular, followed by single track music downloads. Mobile operators are placing great emphasis on music streaming services with players such as Vodafone, Reliance, and Idea offering music streaming at very affordable prices. For example, Vodafone offers subscription-based music streaming services for INR 50 per month ($1.09), which provides subscribers access to its music station with 40,000 songs, and 30 music channels in nine languages. Similarly, handset manufacturers are taking several initiatives to tap the opportunity presented by the Indian digital music market. For example, Nokia has launched its music store under the brand Ovi for Nokia handset owners. Ovi is focusing on providing localized content to users and offers Indian users with a choice of 3.5 million tracks. Gaming on mobile phones is also gaining traction with leading Indian gaming companies, such as Zapak, ibibo, and Indiagames, launching mobile based gaming platforms providing users access to multiple games while incorporating social networking functionalities with gaming. Gaming in India is gaining market owing to content localization, for example, t20fever.com launched by Indiagames, and ICC World Cup 2011 game launched by Zapak. The mobile gaming market is also being cashed in by major handset providers that are launching sophisticated handsets with advanced functionalities for gaming. Tavess expects greater adoption of multi-player mobile games, along with 3D and mythological games, and social gaming that will continue to grow at a steady pace in the next 4-5 years. With the launch of 3G services, the mobile TV and video landscape in India is also witnessing rapid changes. Tavess believes that India has good future potential for mobile video streaming services, especially for videos focused on cricket highlights and updates, in addition to film based content. However, as many subscribers are not accustomed to paid subscription-based services, the monetization of video content will be primarily through advertisements. Tavess also expects greater adoption of mobile TV with users preferring to watch television on mobile while being on the move. In the past few years, Indian telecom operators have been focusing on localization of entertainment services by offering video, music, and gaming content in several regional languages with regional flavor. Further, realizing the potential of market and culturally-relevant content and services, the operators have started offering a plethora of services such as social networking, matrimonial services, astrology, mobile radio, religious chants, comic strips, and are also stressing on demographically targeted services (e.g. dedicated service launches for the younger and older demographics). While these initiatives set the platform for growth, it is important for all the players to continuously invest in launching new and innovative data services to keep the momentum up and gain competitive edge. Tavess believes that mobile entertainment has a huge potential in India and the current localization of mobile entertainment content is driving the industry in the right direction, bringing in greater usability of content. In the coming years mobile entertainment landscape will see several changes with respect to greater integration of mobile entertainment services with social networking, increased significance of user generated content, which will be a major focus area for telecom operators, and the growth of infotainment services. Tavess also expects a rise in mobile advertising programs focused on providing credits to users for watching advertisements. Mobile music will, however, continue to dominate the mobile entertainment services landscape with significant growth potential presented by mobile video and TV. | |
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