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Samsung Leading WiMAX Vendor: ABI Research |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
ABI Research has placed Samsung
at the top of its latest Vendor Matrix for WiMAX
equipment relegating Motorola and Cisco Systems
to second and third place respectively.
ABI
Research assessed vendors on "innovation" and "implementation" across
several criteria such as customer wins, contract awards, global
reach, market share, patents, R&D spending, time to market, and
first movers. Cisco made it into number three thanks to the US$330
million acquisition last year of WIMAX vendorNavini.
Others in the researcher's top ten include Nortel, Fujitsu, Nokia Siemens, Alvarion, Alcatel Lucent, Soma and Telsima.
Principal analyst at ABI, Philip Solis, said, "The top companies in this ABI Research Vendor Matrix are all
strong in providing various wireless and wired parts of
telecommunications solutions, which will be critical in constructing a
comprehensive offering. Most of these companies have also done early
work in critical smart antenna solutions and OFDMA, holding strong
intellectual property portfolios in these areas."
For
this particular matrix, under "innovation," ABI Research examined early
product development for mobile WiMAX; intellectual property for OFDMA,
MIMO, and beamforming; early MIMO R&D; early beamforming R&D,
and end-to-end telecom product offerings.
Under
"implementation," ABI Research scrutinized the following criteria:
major customer wins announced; number of trials acquired; major mobile
operator customers; focus on high-growth developing countries, and
partnerships with other companies in the WiMAX ecosystem.
An unrelated report recently released by Research and Markets noted a quickening of development in the WiMAX space with the number of patents and patent applications accelerating over the past two years. According to that research Samsung and Intel lead the market in WIMAX development activity.
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