Wednesday, November 26, 2014: The future of the communications test equipment will get an overall push via connected living, big data, smart cities and wearable computing. According to the Frost & Sullivan, the demand for the flexibility will strengthen the software-based tools and product integration to lead the market. The market research firm predicted that over 70 per cent of the test equipment will become virtualised and software defined by 2020.
Since the software technologies and connectivity related advancements are evolving at a alarming rate, also the digitalised world has became an unavoidable option, the complications with the smart devices and also within the networks and applications will require a customised testing and monitoring solutions.
Frost & Sullivan measurement and instrumentation program manager Olga Yashkova-Shapiro said, “The emergence of smart energy, smart building, smart mobility, smart healthcare, smart infrastructure, smart technology, smart governance and smart citizens will create tremendous opportunities for test equipment vendors.” He further added, “The increasing complexity of smart consumer devices will also require testing be integrated earlier in the product lifecycle.”
The entire communications test and measurement value chain will involve component providers, device vendors, network providers, platform providers and system integrators. This highly diversified value-chain highlights does not have any one-stop solution provider for end-to-end solutions. Thus, the testing providers are required to look for a bundled solution to overcome this challenge.
Shapiro added, “With the advent of virtualisation, infrastructure testing participants need to develop products that can be tested on major hypervisors as well as other virtualised network components.”
