Report Summary
4G is envisioned to support a fully IP-based technology platform that is capable of providing 100 Mbps and 1 Gbps speeds both indoors and outdoors, with premium quality and high security. 4G will offer all types of services at an affordable cost. 4G is also being developed to accommodate the quality of service (QoS) and rate requirements set by forthcoming applications like wireless broadband access, Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), video chat, mobile TV, High definition TV content, Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), minimal service like voice and data, and other streaming services for "anytime-anywhere"
Key Issues
There is a raging battle between WiMAX and LTE vendors over their future in the deploying of 4G technologies. Who will win this fight? How will vendors decide what to sell and to whom?
This report's goal is to provide a sufficient basis of understanding of the issues to facilitate a vendor's and a carrier's decision making process on wireless broadband.
Report Outline
About the Authors.
Wireless Broadband Services.
1. What is a Broadband Service?.
2. What Kinds of Networks Support Broadband Services?.
3. Why Wi-Fi, WiMAX, LTE, and 4G?.
4. Network Value Chain.
4a. Network Value Chain: The Wired Network.
4b. Network Value Chain: The Wireless Network.
4c. Network Value Chain: The Handset
5. Our Focus.
"The 4G Industry".
(Part Four of Four)
1. Introduction.
2. What is 4G?.
3. Three Approaches of 4G..
3a. 4G Approach #1 - Enhanced 3G or Extended 3G or Open Architecture.
3b. 4G Approach #2 - Long Term Evolution (LTE)
3c. 4G Approach #3 - WiMAX..
3c.i. WiMAX Rumors.
4. 4G Drivers.
5. Wi-Fi - Not a 4G Technology Today.
6. A Potential 4G Technology? Femtocells?.
7. Handsets: 2G, 3G and 4G - The iPhone.
8. Market Analysis - The Future of Broadband Wireless.
8a. Challenges.
8b. Conclusion.
Summary and Conclusion.
