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Mobile Imaging and the Future of Bandwidth: The Battle for Network Control

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Future Image Inc
Published: January 2006
Product Code: R322-35
Description
The slow speeds of even the most advanced cellular networks make sending images from camera-phones a tedious process regardless of whether they are sent to a phone, an e-mail address, or a URL. When it takes more than a minute and sometimes as long as three minutes to share an image, users think twice before they hit the Send button. Therefore lack of bandwidth is a critical inhibitor to the widespread, mainstream adoption of Mobile Imaging, and to monetizing images within the mobile ecosystem.

Furthermore, as the resolution offered by the typical camera-phone increases to match entry-level digital cameras, the problem is exacerbated. And 3G wireless networks won't help for uploading images from the mobile device, only for downloading content to it.

This report examines and compares the current state and the near-term roadmaps of the key Personal Area, Local Area, Metropolitan Area, and Wide Area network technologies, including: Infrared, Bluetooth, UWB, the many flavors of Wi-Fi, GSM and CDMA cellular technologies through HSDPA, HSUPA, and CDMA EV-DO Rev. A & B, UMTS-TDD, FLASH OFDM, and WiBro/WiMAX. It also examines the coming competition between cellular networks and the wireless internet as the medium of choice to send and receive images wirelessly, along with the implications for industry players.
Table of Contents
About the Author / Future Image




Definitions & Methodology




1 SEEoIP

1.1 VoIP

1.2 Metro-Scale Wi-Fi

1.3 Wi-Fi Cameras




2 Technology Review

2.1 Personal Area


2.1.1 Infrared

2.1.2 Bluetooth

2.1.3 Ultra-Wideband (UWB)


2.2 Local Area


2.2.1 The Different Flavors of Wi-Fi


2.3 Wide Area


2.3.1 The Cellular Networks


1G

2G

2.5

3G

3.5G


2.3.2 GSM


GPRS

EDGE

UMTS

HSDPA

HSUPA


2.3.3 CDMA


CDMA2000 1xRTT

CDMA 1x EV-DO

CDMA 1x EV-DO Rev A

CDMA 1x EV-DO Rev B


2.3.4 Alternative WWANs


WiMAX

UMTS TDD

FLASH OFDM





3 Conclusions & Outlook

3.1 Personal Area

3.2 Wide Area

3.3 Local Area

3.4 Outlook


Fig. 1 - comparative speeds for transferring a three-megapixel image over the WLAN and WWAN networks likely to be in place within two years

Fig. 2 - comparative speeds for transferring a one-gigabyte memory card over the WLAN and WWAN

Table 1 - USB

Table 2 - Infrared

Table 3 - Bluetooth

Table 4 - UWB

Fig. 3 - comparative speeds for transferring a three-megapixel image over WPAN

Fig. 4 - comparative speeds for transferring a one-gigabyte memory card over WPAN

Table 5 - Ethernet

Table 6 - 802.11 Working Groups

Table 7 - Wi-Fi

Fig. 5 - comparative speeds for transferring a three-megapixel image over WLAN

Fig. 6 - comparative speeds for transferring a one-gigabyte memory card over WLAN

Table 8 - GSM

Table 9 - GPRS

Table 10 - EDGE

Table 11 - UMTS

Table 12 - HSDPA

Table 13 - HSUPA

Fig. 7 - comparative speeds for transferring a three-megapixel image over GSM networks

Fig. 8 - comparative speeds for transferring a one-gigabyte memory card over GSM networks

Table 14 - CDMA 1x

Table 15 - CDMA 1x EV-DO

Table 16 - CDMA 1x EV-DO Rev A

Table 17 - CDMA 1x EV-DO Rev B

Fig. 9 - comparative speeds for transferring a three-megapixel image over CDMA networks

Fig. 10 - comparative speeds for transferring a one-gigabyte memory card over CDMA networks

Table 18 - WiMAX

Table 19 - UMTS TDD

Table 20 - FLASH OFDM

Fig. 11 - comparative speeds for transferring a three-megapixel image over WWAN networks

Fig. 12 - comparative speeds for transferring a one-gigabyte memory card over WWAN networks
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