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Few Companies Currently Offer Mobile Virtualization Solutions - Yet
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Mobile virtualization is a hot topic in the wireless industry today. However, there is considerable lack of knowledge as to what constitutes mobile virtualization and how and when it will be implemented by mobile operators. Mobile virtualization will also enable new business models for mobile network operators, device OEMs and a new type of MVNO.
Based on new research, iGR believes that the period of time from 2014 to 2016 will see mobile virtualization beginning to mature in the marketplace. Early adopters of mobile virtualization will experience a number of challenges because mobile virtualization is much more than simply adding a new hypervisor to a device. Mobile virtualization permeates the entire mobile operator infrastructure from the smartphone/tablet to the eNodeB, network server, SON, LTE backbone and the EPC.
"Mobile virtualization appears to be the current Holy Grail for the wireless and mobile industry," said Iain Gillott, president and founder of iGR, a market research consultancy focused on the wireless and mobile industry. "iGR believes that finding, developing and deploying effective mobile virtualization solutions will be a challenge like none other that will take at least two to four years to become a reality."
Given that the current standard for mobile virtualization is in its infancy, mobile operators will initially have to rely on a number of hardware and software vendors, which could cause great confusion. Many of these firms will have interim solutions because of the immature state of the mobile virtualization standards.
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