WiMAX Market to Reach $7.7 Billion in 2011, Says Infonetics

The WiMAX market sequentially grew 11% for the quarter and 46% for
the year, with worldwide sales of fixed and mobile WiMAX equipment
hitting just under $800 million in 2007, says Infonetics Research in
its latest WiMAX and Mesh Network Equipment and Devices report.

WiMAX
has been deployed in more than 80 countries worldwide, and commercial
networks will continue to grow in number and size in 2008, the report
shows. Infonetics forecasts the WiMAX market to grow to $7.7 billion in
2011.

"Several recent developments are giving a
boost to the WiMAX market," said Richard Webb, wireless analyst for
Infonetics Research. "Among the most significant developments: Cisco's
acquisition of mobile WiMAX vendor Navini Networks, the market entrance
of specialist ASN gateway vendor WiChorus, the launch of WiMAX phones
and Ultra Mobile PCs, and the new Open WiMAX initiative, which promotes
disruptive, all-IP open WiMAX architecture, and should lead to
best-of-breed solutions with inter-vendor interoperability."

Other report highlights:

• Mobile WiMAX equipment grew in high double-digit percents every quarter of 2007
• Worldwide sales of ASN gateways, which aggregate traffic from mobile WiMAX base stations, grew nearly 10-fold from 2006 to 2007
• The
  number of worldwide WiMAX subscribers (fixed and mobile) topped 2.2
  million in 2007, led by the Asia Pacific region; the majority are fixed
  WiMAX subscribers
• Alvarion maintains its lead in worldwide fixed WiMAX equipment revenue share in 2007, followed by Airspan
• Motorola is the leader in worldwide mobile WiMAX equipment revenue share in 2007, followed by Samsung

Infonetics' report provides market size, market share, and forecasts
for fixed WiMAX equipment split by base stations and CPE; mobile WiMAX
equipment split by ASN-gateways, base stations, CPE, and NICs; mobile
WiMAX phones and Ultra Mobile PCs; and indoor and outdoor mesh network
nodes. Fixed and mobile WiMAX subscriber forecasts are also included.

The service tracks products from Airspan, Alcatel-Lucent, Alvarion,
Aperto Networks, BelAir Networks, Cisco, Firetide, Huawei, Motorola,
Nokia-Siemens Networks, Nortel, Redline Communications, Skypilot
Networks, Strix Systems, Telsima, Tropos Networks, and others.

Infonetics Research (www.infonetics.com)
is an international market research and consulting firm specializing in
data networking and telecom. Services include market share and
forecasting, end-user survey research, service provider survey research
and capex analysis.