Hospital And Healthcare DAS (Distributed Antenna Systems) Installation Expenditures To Surpass $4B By 2015, Says In-Stat

Specific business verticals are finding compelling uses for distributed antenna systems (DAS), one of the new compelling forms of cellular infrastructure architecture. New In-Stat (www.in-stat.com) research findings, project that hospitals and healthcare expenditures for DAS installations will surpass $4B in 2015.

There are many compelling reasons to utilize DAS. The first is that for the end-user, in-building signal quality improves. The improved proximity of in-building antennas propagates better signal attenuation coming in through walls. Second, radiated power coming from individual antennas is less than what would come from a microcell or macrocell base station. The last reason is that DAS installations can be camouflaged on roofs, walls, and light or utility poles.

"DAS is a technology that is roughly a decade old, but the new challenge to DAS contractors is to facilitate wideband signal channels," says Chris Kissel, Analyst. "Passive DAS networks are giving way to active DAS. Also DAS contractors are differentiating themselves by how many frequency bands their networks can support, the costs of the installations, and the types of applications their systems can integrate, which is especially true in the hospital and healthcare fields."

Recent research found the following:

• By 2012, the TAM for all DAS deployments short of metro area outdoor DAS in North America nears $2B.
• Total global DAS revenue will surpass 13 billion in 2015.
• In the Caribbean and Latin America, DAS revenue will increase 20% or more over the forecast period.
• In Eastern Europe, the build-up for DAS starts modestly but eventually grows to 3,897 new deployments in 2015.
• In 2010, 15,000 new nodes were deployed in metro area outdoor DAS.

New In-Stat research, Distributed Antenna Systems—DAS to Fill In Gaps (#IN1104897GW) covers the number and revenues of new DAS deployments by eight major verticals and six regions for the years 2009-2015. The research also includes:

• Vendor Profiles: ADC/TE Connectivity, American Tower, AT&T, Axell Wireless, Cellular Specialists, Inc. (CSI), Comba, Crown Castle (NewPath), Errigal, ExteNet, iBwave, InnerWireless, InSite Wireless, Integer Wireless, ISCO International, MobileAccess, NextG Networks, and Powerwave.
• The market verticals selected for this report include: Government buildings, hospitals and healthcare, offices and corporate campuses, convention centers and sports arenas, universities and school campuses, transportation, depots, and airports, stadiums, and remaining DAS (the most common of which are hotels, casinos, and hospitality).

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SOURCE: In-Stat