Reportlinker Releases Research on the Future of Self Organizing Networks (SON)

Reportlinker.com, a provider of rich resource for industry reports, company profiles and market statistics, announced the addition of a new market research report to its catalogue.

Entitiled, “Self Organizing Networks (SON): Challenges and Market Opportunities for LTE and Beyond,” the report offers an overview on the SON capabilities, vendors, and solutions.

The research maintained that the Fourth Generation (4G) of cellular communications based on the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard promises much great network capacity.

According to the Reportlinker report, the greater supply of bandwidth with LTE technology will stimulate the development, implementation and operation of many new applications. The research predicted that each application will offer unique services and hence create more bandwidth demands.

This will lead to a much more complex network. With networks becoming more complex, there will be need for improved operations and OSS. And this is where the relevance of Self Organizing Network (SON) lies.

The so called Self Organizing Network (SON) has already been introduced as part of the 3GPP LTE network framework, in order to improve OSS for 4G systems. The research predicts further proliferation of SON over time. Reportlinker maintains that SON is ultimately going to yield a dramatically positive effect on network operations and OSS.

By analyzing the function of SON relative to LTE and evaluating SON capabilities, vendors, and solutions, the report offers the benefits of deployment and operation. The report also discusses the future of SON beyond 4G.

According to Reportlinker, the report will also help the users understand specific operations of SON and implications to network OSS. The vendors will come to read about the forecast for overall OSS/BSS revenue from 2011 through 2016 and help them calculate the possible return on investments for SON. It will help the vendors identify the challenges and opportunities in deploying and operating SON.

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