US Public Safety: A New Era of Wireless Networks

Study Summary
“Public Safety: A New Era of Wireless Networks” is an assessment of the market for wireless networks and devices for use by public safety entities within the United States from 2007 through 2012. Emergency services, municipal, state, and federal institutions are all considered when deriving shipments and sales of emerging broadband and narrowband digital wireless technologies as well as for more traditional public safety platforms such as land mobile radio, satellites, point-to-point microwave use, and public cellular wireless networks. The impact of numerous wireless platforms are considered and evaluated, including Wi-Fi, mesh networks, civilian broadband wireless platforms (cellular, WiMAX), and SMR and ESMR radio technologies. Government legislation as well as US standards, frequency allocations and market and political drivers and trends are identified and assessed.

Quantifies Through 2012

Total wireless equipment revenues for US public safety

Land mobile radio subscriber unit shipments and revenues

Land mobile radio base station and repeater shipments and revenues

Land mobile dispatch consoles and switches shipments and revenues

Digital land mobile

4.9GHz network equipment shipments and revenues

Satellite user device shipments and revenues

Point-to-point microwave radio shipments and revenues

Topics

Market drivers

Next generation radio requirements

SDR, mesh networks, cognitive radio

Broadband wireless platforms

Land mobile radio

VoIP

Trunked Radios

Standards

Frequency Allocations

SMR and ESMR

4.9GHz developments

Public safety paging and satellite use

Point-to-point microwave radio

Use of civilian networks for pubic safety

Interdepartmental interoperability and security