Software Defined Radio - Rate of AdoptionThe Wireless Innovation Forum commissioned Mobile Experts LLC in 2011 to perform a market study evaluating the adoption of SDR technologies in various markets. The results of this study demonstrated that, in many markets, SDR has moved beyond the innovators and early adopters as defined by Geoffrey Moore in “Crossing the Chasm” into the early majority phase defining the mainstream market*. In this phase, adopters select a technology not because it is innovative or visionary but because it has been shown to successfully solve a problem within their specific market. Examples of SDR adoption illustrating the transition to the mainstream are abundant:
While these types of systems are often not marketed as “SDR’s”, they utilize and benefit from SDR technologies to solve market specific problems such as; cost of development, cost of production, cost of upgrades and maintenance, time to market in supporting new and evolving air interface standards, or problems associated with network interoperability.
* Geoffrey A. Moore, Crossing the Chasm (Revised Addition), Harper Collins Publishers, 2002
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