Wireless service providers are experiencing an increase in the growth of wireless data usage by public and enterprise users.
This increase, according to a new market research report by Reportlinker.com, is driven by both new and emerging classes of mobile devices including smartphones and PC data cards.
These developments have thus made it critical for wireless service providers to provide support to several higher-bandwidth data applications and services on their networks.
The new report titled “Self Organizing Network (SON) Infrastructure Provider Market and Forecast 2013 – 2017” indicates that wireless carriers typically aim to improve OSS for mobile cellular networks.
The report also identifies SON as an important technology that has been introduced as part of the 3GPP LTE network framework.
For those unaware, an SON has the ability to automatically configure the parameters of its sub-elements. This network is also designed to continuously optimize the parameters of these sub-elements and as a result SON is able to optimize capacity, coverage and network performance.
The deployment of SON over time is expected to give a positive effect on network operations and OSS as it will automate certain activates.
This automation, says Reportlinker.com will save personnel costs and related costs of materials. Readers of this newly released report will get useful information about the major SON suppliers and benefit from comparative analysis and vendor rankings.
Targeting a wide range of readers such as mobile network operators, wireless device manufacturers and wireless infrastructure providers, this report also includes a market assessment and forecast analysis of SON infrastructure provider market.
Another good read on the subject of SON is a report by rnrmarketresearch.com, as it includes a comprehensive evaluation of capabilities, vendors and solutions presented by this technology.
This report will also give insight to readers about the future of SON beyond 4G.
Edited by
Alisen Downey 
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