WiMAX The Case for

Low Cost

Jerold Givens
Manager, DSP Products
Communications Infrastructure Group

802.16

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Analysts Validate Emerging WiMAX Market
Consensus Shows a Roughly $2 Billion Market by 2009
WW market for WiMax and outdoor-mesh Wi-Fi equipment will
Infonetics
grow from US $235 million this year to US $1.2 billion by 2009

Visant $3.4 billion annual opportunity for fixed & portable

Strategies broadband equipment by 2010

Research Fixed Wireless, WiFi, and WiMax markets at $2.4 billion in 2004
and Markets are anticipated to reach $12.4 billion by 2010

Maravedis The broadband wireless market was $562 million in 2004,

Research and will exceed $2 billion by the end of 2009

Forward Sales of fixed and mobile WiMax equipment will increase

Concepts from $72 million this year to over $2 billion in 2009

By 2009, Asia/Pacific WiMax equipment spending

InStat will account for US $2 billion

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WiMAX Infrastructure Applications Have Diverse
Requirements

Portable
Mobility

Rural Areas

Cellular
Back Haul
802.16
Hot Spots

Greenfield
Locations

Last Mile
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 Broadband Wireless Access Configurations Have
Unique System Requirements

Point to Point for

connecting Base T1 Level
Stations and feeding Service
Cellular Towers for SMEs

Internet
Backbone

Telco Central Broadband Level

Office or Private Service for small
(Fiber) Network business

Wireless Backhaul Residential / SoHo

Hot Spot for Hot Spots Broadband
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WiMAX Infrastructure Deployment Opportunities in
Asia

Asia Pacific will represent 45% of WiMAX Market by 2009 with

equipment spending accounting for US$1,988.2 million by
2009. Subscribers will reach 3 million by 2009.
China is estimated to contribute 38% of the regional WiMAX
equipment revenue in 2009, followed by South Korea with
23.1% and Japan with 22.5%.
China will boast the highest WiMAX service revenue in 2009,
due to its largest subscriber base developed by competitive
wireless service providers.
Juniper Research expects Mobile WiMax wireless broadband
system service users will increase from 1.7 million in 2007 to 21
million in 2012 driven largely by data. OEMs will likely focus on
WiMax-WiFi dual-mode products rather than Wimax-3G dual-
mode solutions.

Source: TelecomView/In-stat/Juniper
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Challenges Exist for WiMAX Deployment

Spectrum regulation varies significantly across countries

Competition from other technologies such as HSDPA and TD-
SCDMA may cause delays
Fixed wireless operators somewhat lack of enthusiasm about
WiMAX after past bad experiences on last-mile promises from
vendors.
In China, government regulations especially on tele-
broadcasting will be different from tele-communication.
Government is trying to find ways to achieve the harmonization
and the convergence of different networking technologies. It is
uncertain at this moment.

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 TIs Leadership in the Infrastructure Will
Enable Low Cost Emerging WiMAX Market

Broadband Wireless
TI is the leader in DSL 90% 3G base station
with 100M ports OEMs use TI
shipped technology

TIs WiMAX solutions leverage WiMAX and future proof new designs
its legacy products for other emerging standards

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 Systems Expertise Reduces
Barriers to Entry
Support for both fixed and mobile applications plus
multiple frequency bands enables cost-effective
configurations
Use across a wide variety of platforms equals high
volumes reducing system costs
Leveraging over two decades of TI wireless
infrastructure and OFDM experience
802.11 and DSL OFDM-based systems in production today
Many proprietary OFDM systems in the market use TI solutions
Mobile digital TV and UWB OFDM-based systems in
development

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TI Provides the Only Complete WiMAX
Portfolio Solution
From Network to Antenna

High-
Software
Software Performance Interface &
DSP ASIC Analog Timing Power
TMS320C6416

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 Meeting the Hardware and Software
Reuse Challenge

+ =
Customers WiMAX
FPGA
Application Software
WiMAX-Optimized
Gig TI TI TI Baseband 802.16
E DSP DSP DSP Software

+ =
Customers W-CDMA
FPGA Application Software

Gig
W-CDMA-Optimized
TI TI TI
E DSP DSP DSP
Baseband
Software
W-CDMA BTS

+ =
FPGA Customers Pico BTS
Application Software
Gig TI TI TI Pico BTS-Optimized
E DSP DSP DSP Baseband
Software Pico BTS
Reuse saves 10s to 100s of man years
Customers get to market faster, more efficiently
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1 GHz DSP Plus WiMAX-Optimized Software
Reduces Time to Market

=
Customers WiMAX

+
Application Software Robust
TCI6482 802.16e /
WiMAX-Optimized WiMAX
Baseband
Optimized Solution
Software
Functions

1 GHz DSP
improves Software
cost and Customers
power per optimized for the
channel by evolving and can build
accelerating: unforeseen multi-standard
demands of channel cards
PHY processing WiMAX speeding time
IFFT/FFT
MIMO/Beamforming to market

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 Complete Analog Signal Chain Portfolio
Lowers Total Cost of Ownership

New TRF3703 IQ 5.8 GHz chipset reduces board space and

modulator saves on bill of materials, including both
supports direct RF/IF transceiver
baseband-to-RF 2.5GHz/3.5GHz chipsets support dual duplex
conversion - modes
saving design
cost and TRF1115 TRF1112
ADS5553
ADS52xx
GC5016

TRF1216 TRF1212 Din

complexity ADS55xx
Cin
Cin
ADC Bin
SerDes
Flexible, adaptive Bin
DDC DSP
or
data converters FPGA
ADC Ain
Ain

address Clk

changing market Clk

Din
Cin
DAC
needs TRF1122
TRF1222
TRF1121
TRF1221
Aout
Bin
DUC
SerDes
DSP
or
DAC Bout FPGA
Analog Ain

TRF3XXX DAC5686/7
DAC90x GC5016 TCI6482
DAC290x
THS556x1A
DAC56x2
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 Customers Leverage Complete Support
Package for Ease of Design

Reference designs are

available for all three
chipsets
Software package is
included
Dedicated apps engineers
guide customers through
design questions
RF technology leverages
Radia acquisition as well
as TIs wireless
infrastructure portfolio of
DSP and Analog products
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 Conclusions

Many opportunities exist to deploy WiMAX

Challenges also exist to deploy a cost-
effective solution that meet divergent
application needs
Choosing a system-based, programmable
solution addresses many of these challenges
Inherent flexibility for wide-ranging spectrums
Programmability to support unique service provider requirements
Suppliers system-level knowledge can save R&D cost with
reusable platforms
Complete package of digital, analog, software and reference
designs offers the best cost/performance package available
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