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Ubiquisys takes the top spot on the back of its continued commitment to innovation with technologies like SideStep, CloudBase, and EdgeCloud, while keeping their commercial contracts ticking through their NEC and NSN partnerships, comments Aditya Kaul, practice director, mobile networks. Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei have also seen commercial success over the past year in terms of contract wins, but Ubiquisyss dedicated focus on the small cell area allows them to stay a couple of steps ahead of their larger rivals when it comes to introducing innovative techniques that should shape the future of the small cell market.
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3. METHODOLOGY
The Indoor Small Cell Vendor Matrix compares small cell access point vendors and ranks them based on various criteria linked to Innovation and Implementation. This matrix primarily covers the competitiveness of vendors that provide access points for indoor residential and enterprises small cells. However, it does recognize the capability of vendors around outdoor metro and rural small cell solutions. ABI Research evaluates vendors on the basis of innovation and implementation by selecting multiple criteria related to product/company characteristics that serve as proxies for the vendors' performance in these two areas. Upon evaluation, vendors are assigned numerical scores that are aggregated and analyzed to provide overall rankings of each vendor on the Innovation and Implementation axes. The criteria specific to the evaluation of small cells include: 3.1. Implementation
End-to-End Solution Capability: measures ability of vendor to provide end-to-end solutions from chipset access point through to system integration. RFP, Trial, and Rollout Activity: measures commercial activity of vendor including participation in RFPs, trials, and commercial rollouts, with larger weight for live commercial rollouts. Ability to Scale and Commoditize Quickly: measures ability to scale operations to match upcoming spikes in demand for small cell access points. Carrier Relationships: measures existing relationships with carriersincluding Tier 1, 2, and 3 carrierswith larger weightage for Tier 1 carriers. Overall Financial and Organizational Health: measures financial health of the vendor. Silicon Strategy/Partnerships: measures the silicon strategy, silicon partnerships, or internal ability of a vendor to develop silicon. Software Stack Capabilities: measures the software stack strategy, software stack partnerships, or internal ability of a vendor to develop software stack.
3.2. Innovation
Cost: measures innovation and effort in reducing the cost of the small cell access point. Interference Mitigation Techniques: measures innovation and techniques involved in reducing interference from small cells. Standards-Compliant Network Interface: measures efforts to provide a standards-compliant small cell, including participation and submission to the standards themselves. Gateway/Handset IOT: measures effort of vendor in terms of handset and gateway IOT. L2/L3 Software Stack: measures innovation on the L2/L3 software stack. Hand In/Out Support: measures effort and innovation to provide hand-in/hand-out support on small cells. Module Support: measures the ability of a vendor to provide modular versions of its small cell that can integrate into third-party platforms. Femtozone Service/Application Framework Support: measures innovation and development of a femtozone services and application framework. Support for Multiple Form Factors: measures innovation and capability in providing multiple form factors (DSL/Wi-Fi integrated, set-top box integrated femto). Enterprise Small Cell Capability: measures innovation and capabilities for enterprise/business grade small cells. Metro/Rural Small Cell Capability: measures innovation and capabilities for metro/rural grade small cells.
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Small Cell Network and Operations Management: measures capabilities and innovations around small cell network management systems including fault diagnostics, device management, collecting network statistics, and performance management.
3.3. Rankings After individual scores are established for Innovation and Implementation using the above criteria, an overall company score is established using the Root Mean Square (RMS) method:
The resulting overall scores are then ranked and used for percentile comparisons. The RMS method, in comparison with a straight summation or average of individual innovation and implementation values, rewards companies for standout performance. For example, using this method a company with an innovation score of 9 and an implementation score of 1 would score considerably higher than a company with a score of 5 in both areas, despite the mean score being the same. ABI Research believes this is appropriate as the goal of these matrices is to highlight those companies that stand out from the others.
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5. TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. UBIQUISYS VENDOR MATRIX STANDING ..................................................................................................................... 1 2. UBIQUISYS COMPANY OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................................ 2 3. METHODOLOGY ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
3.1. Implementation .................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 3.2. Innovation ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 3 3.3. Rankings ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 4
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