Wireless Watch: White Space Devices – Markets, technology, risks and opportunity Jul 27, 2012 – Rethink Research
Global Forecasts for White Space broadband to 2016
A combined report from Real Wireless and Rethink Technology Research
White space devices detect unused gaps in wireless spectrum for broadband. They require a locally held database of spectrum which it is okay to use, made up from gaps in licensed spectrum or from over-generous guard bands. The concept has come a long way since it was first suggested as a half-baked notion about five years ago by Google, Microsoft and the White Space Coalition.
Today if you look closely at the underlying technologies you can see which White Space device standards are going to win out, and glimpse the shape of a world where robust and stable broadband will become freely available wherever you are – for certain applications.
There remain hurdles to overcome, not the least of which is a viable business model, device co-existence, and commonality of spectrum spaces from country to country. This report is the FIRST such report which goes down into the technical details, explains which standards are emerging and presents a sane forecast methodology to predict the uptake rates of White Space Devices (WSDs).
The report will help regulators make rules; it will point to the component and equipment vendors worth taking seriously and presents deployment rationales for different regions, regardless of their spectrum allocation practises.
If your business wishes to use White Space broadband, or hopes to make money out of device and equipment provision, then you MUST buy this report – we have tried to build a bridge from field trials, which we report on in full - to the point when an eco-system will be in place, with real, commercially priced devices.
Our report “White Space Devices” offers an in-depth analysis of which applications WSDs will be used for, their likely broadband performance, and it debates and outlines the most sensible operator models for the countries that have first mover advantage, the US, UK and Canada, as well as suggesting some for the wider international community. We spoke to 50 White Space specialist players in preparing this report and we have identified all the key risk areas for the technology going forwards. Don’t make a White Spaces move, without reading this report.
