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5.7 Latin America Mobile Backhaul Equipment Market Forecast Summary 2013-2018
Table 5.9 Latin America Mobile Backhaul Equipment Market Forecast 2013-2018 ($million, AGR %, CAGR%, Cumulative)
2012 Revenues ($m) AGR (%) CAGR (%) 2013 -15 CAGR (%) 2013 -18 Source: Visiongain 2013 750.9 2013 766.6 2.1% 1.1% 2014 779.2 1.6% 2015 783.5 0.6% 2015 -18 2.7% 2016 804.1 2.6% 2017 830.2 3.2% 3.8% 2018 876.9 5.6% 2013-18 5591.5

Figure 5.14 Latin America Mobile Backhaul Equipment Market Forecast 2013-2018 ($million, AGR%)
1,000 Revenues ($m) 800 600 400 200 0 2012 Source: Visiongain 2013 2013 2014 2015 Year 2016 2017 2018 6% 5% 3% 2% 1% 0% AGR (%) 4%

Figure 5.15 Latin America Mobile Backhaul Equipment Market Share Forecast 2013, 2015 and 2018 (% Share) 2013 2015 2018

Source: Visiongain 2013

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7.3.1 Alcatel Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent is a global telecommunications company based in Paris, France. Alcatel-Lucent offers mobile backhaul solution to enable mobile network operators to seamlessly support AnyG to LTE (2G, 3G and LTE) radio access network technologies. The company deals with:

Fixed Line; Mobile; Converged Networking Hardware; and IP Technologies.

Alcatel-Lucent provides solutions to service providers, enterprises and governments their portfolio includes routing and switching equipment for carrier networks including:

Core; Edge; Aggregation; Customer edge; and Management.

Alcatel-Lucent's major customers are AT&T and Verizon who have been spending heavily on mobile network backhaul equipment in 2010-2011. Beyond North America, Alcatel-Lucent has a growing reputation. One-third of Alcatel-Lucents revenues are generated in the North American mobile backhaul equipment market.

The U.S. boom has also boosted Alcatel-Lucent's margins because the market is effectively closed to low-cost Chinese competitors like Huawei and ZTE Corp over concerns about the security of key national infrastructure.

7.3.1.1 Analysis of Alcatel-Lucents Offerings

Alcatel-Lucent had the number one market share position with 22% of worldwide Ethernet mobile backhaul equipment revenue for 2012. Visiongain believes that they retained this position in 2013 and will continue to do so in 2014. We believe their strategy of enhancing their portfolio for an all IP wireless transformation service will see them gain substantial market share by 2018.

See Table 7.3 for a summary of AlcatelLucents current offerings.

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8. Expert Opinion
8.1 Airspan Networks
The following interview was conducted in October 2012. Visiongain would like to thank Paul Sergeant, Senior Director, Business Development, North America, at Airspan Networks for his participation in this interview, and providing us with an expert insight on the mobile network backhaul equipment market.

8.1.1 Airspan Networks Company Background & Affiliation to Mobile Backhaul Equipment
Visiongain: Please give us a little background about your company and your contribution to the mobile backhaul equipment market.

Paul Sergeant: Airspan Networks is a global provider of 4G broadband wireless systems and solutions that deliver high-speed data, voice and multimedia services. Airspans products serve operators and vertical markets such as smart utilities, transportation and public safety around the world in both licensed and unlicensed frequency bands covering from 700MHz up to 6GHz. Its products have been deployed in over 100 countries by 500 operators, 100 of which use Airspans 4G products.

Airspan has a unique combination of in-house skills addressing the LTE, WiMAX, Wi-Fi and VoIP technologies and develops industry-leading products by combining these technologies in innovative ways in order to deliver new and advanced solutions. Airspan offers a comprehensive range of products to meet the connectivity requirements of a wide variety of applications. With a pioneering suite of 4G radio access network (RAN) products, Airspan delivers first-ever solutions to bridge connectivity gaps, provide improved end-user personal broadband experiences, and connect a myriad of vertical market organizations to reliable, robust 4G broadband.

AirSynergy is Airspans all-in-one compact Outdoor Pico Base Station, which supports a wide range of broadband wireless interfaces including 4G LTE and 4G WiMAX. AirSynergy is Airspans latest generation of Software Defined Radio (SDR) Base Stations, which supports 4G access and non-line-of-sight high capacity wireless backhaul from the same network node.

The integration of both backhaul and access technologies is an industry first, and redefines the way in which networks can be constructed. This technique enables AirSynergy to be deployed on

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