There are various vendors out in the market offering Packet Core products. Four of them stand out as market leaders. They include Huawei, Ericsson, NSN, and Starent. There was a total Packet Core capacity shipment of 229.4 million SAU (Simultaneously Attached Users) shipped by vendors worldwide in 1H09. Click here to read the announcement.
Table of Contents
1. Executive Summary
2. Mobile Broadband Market Status
2.1. Market Overview
2.2. Market Drivers for Mobile Broadband
3. New Business Models
3.1. Flat Rate and its Impact
3.2. Different Charging Models
3.3. Differentiated User Experience
4. Emerging New Services
4.1. Mobile Multimedia
4.2. Voice over Mobile Broadband
4.3. Approaches to Voice over LTE
5. New Requirements for Packet Switched Core
5.1. Increased traffic, price pressures require lowering the cost per bit
5.2. Increased traffic requires high-capacity packet core
5.3. Increased traffic requires reduction in the backhaul cost
5.4. New services require the evolution to flat network architecture
5.5 Evolution to Higher Bandwidth Speed and Low Latency Technology
6. Worldwide Mobile Packet Core Equipment Shipments and Market Shares
7. Selected Packet Core Equipment Vendors
7.1. Ericsson
7.2. Huawei
7.3. NSN
7.4. Starent
Figures and Tables
Table 2.1: Mobile Broadband subscriber numbers in different geographical regions
Figure 2.1: Mobile Broadband subscriber numbers in different geographical regions
Table 3.1: Monthly subscription rates for mobile broadband, various operators
Table 5.1: Service providers that have implemented Direct Tunnelling and their vendor partners
Table 5.2: Speed and Latency in different wireless broadband networks
Table 6.1: Packet Core Capacity Shipped by Vendors in 2008
Figure 6.1: Market share of vendors in Packet Core equipment shipped (Year 2008)
Table 6.2: Packet Core Capacity Shipped by Vendors in 1H 2009
Figure 6.2: Market share of vendors in Packet Core equipment capacity shipped (1H09)








