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SDR: Disrupting Your Value Chain and Business Model

Published by: Visiongain

Published: Aug. 3, 2005


Table of Contents


Chapter 1 Executive Summary

1.1 Military projects lead current procurement

1.2 SDR brings multi-faceted benefits

1.3 Technical, security and regulatory challenges

1.4 Deployments and market size

1.5 Handset implementation issues

1.6 Implications of SDR on value chain




Chapter 2 Introduction and Strategic Overview

2.1 What is a Software Defined Radio?


2.1.1 SDR Compared To Hardware Radio


Figure 1.1: Traditional Dual-Band Mobile-Phone Architecture

Figure 1.2: Software-Defined Radio Architecture


2.1.1.1 SDR dynamics


Table 2.1: Five-Tier Description Of Software-Radio Categories




2.1.2 Cognitive Radio


2.2 History of SDR

2.3 Key technological drivers of SDR development


2.3.1 ADCs

2.3.2 DSPs

2.3.3 ASICs and ASSPs

2.3.4 FPGAs

2.3.5 Filters

2.3.6 Other Supporting Technologies


2.4 How SDRS will continue to evolve

2.5 Cooperation and standardisation efforts


2.5.1 JTRS


Table 2.2: JTRS Contractors and Subcontractors


2.5.2 Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI)

2.5.3 SDR Forum


Table 2.3: SDR Forum members


2.5.4 Government Regulation


2.5.4.1 Reallocation

2.5.4.2 Leasing

2.5.4.3 Sharing





Chapter 3 Benefits offered by SDR

3.1 Benefits to operators

3.2 Benefits to equipment vendors

3.3 Benefits to end-users

3.4 Country-level benefits

3.5 Benefits across stakeholder boundaries


Table 3.1 SDR Benefits Appeal to Multiple Stakeholders


3.6 SDR and location-based services


3.6.1 Emergency Response




Chapter 4 Challenges

4.1 Technological challenges


4.1.1 Silicon

4.1.2 DSPs

4.1.3 Metalanguage


4.2 Architectural issues\


4.2.1 Component Throughput

4.2.2 Protocol-Based Differences In Handset Requirements

4.2.3 Handset vs Base Station Implementation

4.2.4 General-Purpose Processor vs Multiple Radios


4.3 Security challenges


4.3.1 Unauthorized Downloads

4.3.2 Unauthorized Activation


Figure 4.1: Stakeholder-Based Authorization of a Given Software Module


4.3.3 Interference

4.3.4 Intrusion


4.4 Regulatory challenges

4.5 Cooperation and standardisation needed to make SDR a success


4.5.1 Technology and Certification

4.5.2 Regulation

4.5.3 Operation




Chapter 5 Market and competitive landscape

5.1 How widely is SDR likely to be used?

5.2 Selected companies involved in developing SDR


5.2.1 Agilent Technologies

5.2.2 Adaptix

5.2.3 AirNet Communications

5.2.4 Altera

5.2.5 Analog Devices

5.2.6 Boeing

5.2.7 Cingular Wireless

5.2.8 Ericsson

5.2.9 General Dynamics

5.2.10 Intel

5.2.11 Lucent Technologies

5.2.12 Motorola

5.2.13 Nokia

5.2.14 NTT DoCoMo

5.2.15 PicoChip

5.2.16 Pulse~Link

5.2.17 Qualcomm

5.2.18 RadioFrame Networks

5.2.19 Sandbridge

5.2.20 Siemens

5.2.21 Spectrum Signal Processing

5.2.22 Texas Instruments

5.2.23 TechnoConcepts

5.2.24 Vanu


5.3 Is anyone opposed to SDR?


5.3.1 Operators

5.3.2 Television Service Providers

5.3.3 Manufacturers


5.4 Likely SDR timeline

5.5 Forecasts and market opportunity


Chart 5.1: DR basestation market, 2002 and 2008

Table 5.1: SDR handset market, 2008

Chart 5.2: Programmable Baseband Processor sales, 2003 and 2007




Chapter 6 SDR business-model effects

6.1 How SDR changes industry business dynamics


6.1.1 How SDR Will Shift the Dynamics of Control in the Value Chain


Figure 6.1: Traditional Mobile Wireless Value Web

Figure 6.2: SDR-Enabled Mobile Wireless Value Web


6.1.2 How SDR Will Shift the Dynamics of Competition in the Industry


6.2 New business opportunities


6.2.1 Infrastructure-Level Opportunities


Figure 6.3: Monetizing Access To Non-Home Locations With User Approval

Figure 6.4: Monetizing Access To Non-Home Locations As Roaming Agreement


6.2.2 Application-Level Opportunities


6.3 SWOT analysis of SDR


6.3.1 Strengths

6.3.2 Weaknesses

6.3.3 Opportunities

6.3.4 Threats

6.3.5 Possible Strategies Based on Opportunities/Strengths

6.3.6 Possible Strategies Based on Opportunities/Weaknesses


Table 6.1: Business-Focused SWOT Analysis of SDR



6.4 Likely winners and losers


6.4.1 Handset Providers

6.4.2 Operators

6.4.3 Third-Party Technology and Service Providers




Chapter 7 Recommendations and Conclusions

7.1 Recommendations


7.1.1 Network Operators

7.1.2 SDR Proponents

7.1.3 Network Equipment Vendors

7.1.4 Handset Vendors

7.1.5 Application Service Providers


7.2 Conclusion




Appendix A SDR Forum member companies




Appendix B About visiongain




Appendix C Report evaluation form

Companies and organisation mentioned in this report:


ADAPTIX

AeroStream Communications

Agilent Technologies

AirNet Communications

Altera

Analog Devices

Boeing

British Army

Broadstorm

Cadence

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Cingular Wireless

Entegra

enVia

Ericsson

FCC

Fujitsu

General Dynamics

Hitachi

IBM

Institute of Computing Technology

Intel

LG Electronics

Lockheed Martin

Lucent Technologies

MidTex Cellular

Motorola

NATO

Nextel

Nokia

NTT DoCoMo

OBSAI

Orange,

PicoChip

Pulse~Link

Qualcomm

RadioFrame Networks

Raytheon

Roke Manor Research Limited

Sandbridge

SDR Forum

Siemens

Spectrum Signal Processing

TCAM

TechnoConcepts

Texas Instruments

Thales Innovative Concepts

US Air Force

US Army

US Department of Defense

US Navy

Vanu

WiMAX Forum


Abstract

Software Defined Radio (SDR) will revolutionise the wireless telecoms industry. Your current value chain will become redundant and a value web will become necessary. Signal processing functions will become incorporated into software, and SDR devices will emulate virtually any transmission format; it will change operating frequency range to suit the needs of the application and/or network in use. SDR will change the way your handsets or your network operate. You need to take note. Are you fully aware of the potential impact that this will have on your industry?

SDR acts as an opportunity and a threat to all elements of your value chain, however with the opportunity to offer improved 'time-to-market', the benefits become clear immediately. "SDR: Disrupting your value chain and business model", the brand new report from visiongain will help you identify the risks and benefits associated with implementing SDR.

This report answers key questions, such as:
  • What are the drivers behind SDR and how they will effect you?
  • How is SDR likely to evolve?
  • How widespread will basestation and handset-based SDR solutions become?
  • What benefits does SDR offer?
By ordering this report you will learn how SDR can help your industry evolve from a collection of fragmented, disassociated networks into a single, integrated wireless network.

This report analyses:
  • the expected SDR timeline
  • the main players involved with SDR and their products and strategies
  • the impact SDR will have on the telecoms landscape
  • the implications for operators, vendors and other companies in the value chain in the face of SDR introduction
  • the main challenges SDR must resolve before it becomes a mainstream technology.
By reading this highly analytical report you will learn how the technology is set to transfer from the military into the commercial domain. Understand what lessons can be learned from military developments and deployments of SDR. You will also discover how involved vendors will leverage their existing knowledge into the civilian domain.

Commercial SDR deployment has already begun to increase, NOW. This report will provide you with the insight as to how SDR solutions are currently being installed in base stations, and how, on the handset side, the use of SDR is also set to grow rapidly.

This report takes an in-depth look at the issues and implications of implementing SDR in mobile terminals.

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