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Wireless Applications
Infrastructure: WASPs Demand for IT Infrastructure & Services,
2001-2005
Service:
Online Computing Infrastructure
Report
Number: OE01-04IN
Publication Date: October 2001
Number of Pages: 36
Report Price: $2,995 USD
This report provides
an overview of the emerging Wireless-enabled Application Service
Provider (W-ASP) market, including a look into their back-end infrastructure.
The report provides detailed 5-year forecasts of expenditures of
these service providers on the IT products, personnel and services
needed to provision their wireless-accessible hosted applications
business, in addition to a discussion of primary computing platforms
and wireless-enablement solutions used in 2001 and expected to be
used in 2002.
Currently, the
majority of W-ASP solutions are rooted in proprietary architectures.
Given that wireless connectivity is still an emerging market, it
is not unusual to find these types of proprietary point solutions
in place. It is difficult to anticipate just when a technology will
take hold, sometimes it never does. If there is a high barrier to
entry and no pull for the technology, it can fizzle out of favor
or get relegated to specific niche markets, leaving room for just
a few players. In other cases, one vendor’s solution may gain
the greatest acceptance across the broadest audience, and thereby
become the defacto standard, but still remain proprietary. Again,
in other cases, more open standards may emerge and become embedded
into existing applications, operating systems or devices, which
eliminates the need for proprietary point solutions.
Table
of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Methodology
- Definition of W-ASP
- Data Collection & Sources
- Forecast Assumptions and Methodology
- W-ASP Market Overview
- Market Forecasts
- Analysis of the Total Available Market
- Devices Supported
- W-ASP Infrastructure Overview
- Computing Platforms
- Platforms Enabling Wireless-accessibility
- Wireless-accessible Applications Offered
- Estimated IT Expenditures for W-ASPs
- Total Market Expenditures
- Estimated IT Expenditures by Type
- Conclusions
- Selected Service Provider Profiles
- Aether Systems
- Air2Web Inc.
- Dynamic Mobile Data
- Everypath
- Geoworks
- Mi8 Corporation
- MobileSys
- Nowspeed
- Retrieval Dynamics
- SmartServ
- 2Roam
- w-Technologies Inc.
List
of Tables
- Table 1: U.S. W-ASP IT Infrastructure Expenditures, 2000-2005
($K)
List of Figures
- Figure 1: Platforms Enabling Wireless Accessibility - W-ASPs,
2001
- Figure 2: Subscriber Revenue Forecasts U.S. Market - W-ASPs,
2001-2005
- Figure 3: U.S. Population-Total vs. Full-time Employment - W-ASPs,
2001-2005
- Figure 4: Mobile Computing Devices Supported - W-ASPs, 2001
- Figure 5: Predominate or Primary Server Operating Systems -
W-ASPs, 2001-2002
- Figure 6: Predominate Server Platform - W-ASP, 2001-2002
- Figure 7: Platforms Enabling Wireless Accessibility - W-ASPs,
2001
- Figure 8: Wireless-accessible Applications Offered - W-ASPs,
2001
- Figure 9: Wireless Accessible Applications Offered - W-ASPs,
2002
- Figure 10: Total Market IT Expenditures - W-ASPs, 2001-2005
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