Wireless Market: Implications for RF Test & Measurement

In the face of a static or declining defense budget, the microwave industry is placing its hopes on the growth in commercial markets particularly in the wireless area. In this paper we will discuss how the market is segmented, the anticipated developments in these segments and the implications for test and measurement. The emerging character of this market makes it hard to segment in any simple way but an attempt to group it by application identity is imminent. Almost all of these market segments have been characterized as wireless at one time or another and perhaps the most common feature of all of them is the probability of using MMICs in either GaAs or silicon.