INTRODUCTION
Telecommunications networks, consisting of subscriber lines, trunks, switches and associated network equipment, are moving towards wireless and broadband connections that require new test equipment in which computers are used as testing platforms. Moreover, the introduction of an optical means of communicating that precludes mechanical connections for testing also complicates and influences the testing of telecommunications equipment.
SCOPE OF STUDY
This report on telecommunications test equipment
METHODOLOGY
BCC used both a top-down and a bottom-up approach to analyze the worldwide production and consumption of telecommunications test equipment. Values are given in 2004 U.S. dollars.
In estimating the growth rates of the demand for test equipment, consideration was given to its density (user lines per subscribers, per 100 inhabitants), and its relation to the gross national income/product. These calculations were applied for each country individually (and for Hong Kong and Macao separately).
INFORMATION SOURCES
BCC surveyed several hundred test equipment users and manufacturers to obtain data for this study. Data was compiled from current financial and government sources.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bertil C. Lindberg is an educator, analyst, researcher, entrepreneur, and independent consultant with a breadth of international experience in the electronics, telecommunications, and data communications fields. Lindberg started his career in telecommunications at Ericsson, in Sweden, and has dealt with practically every telecommunications operating company in the world. He has taught at Northrup and the State University at Pomona in California, the New York University and the Polytechnic University in Brooklyn. Since the early 1970s he has worked as an independent consultant advising a global clientele on market and technology issues in electronic communications. He has published several books and numerous articles and reports. Lindberg graduated in electrical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and in economics and marketing at the Stockholm School of Economics.
