Market Trends of Oscilloscope Industry
IT and Telecommunication Segment to Have a Significant Growth Rate
- Oscilloscopes can be used to analyze all kinds of communication signals. There are special oscilloscopes that can operate in the GHz range. Engineers can quickly analyze radio, TV, mobile phone, and microwave signals. Special probes can also be used to analyze EM signals directly.
- Communications signals were found only in specific telecommunications applications. Now they are common occurrences in most consumer and business products. Almost every major electronic equipment, like faxes, telephones, and computers, is networked, and it seems as if everyone owns a wireless communications device like a cellular phone.
- As communications circuitry becomes more common in consumer products, design and test engineers must represent and verify communications signals in addition to digital and analog signals. Because these products must be designed quickly, and verifying communications signals is a relatively new task for many engineers, a test solution, such as an oscilloscope, is essential.
- The upcoming 5G technology is expected to become the industry standard for telecommunications, heralding a new era of connectivity, speed, and possibility. Mobile networks will be 100 times faster and 1,000 times larger than they are now. With the increase of 5G technology, few vendors are trying to launch their 5G services in towns and cities. Adding these communication services will drive the market for oscilloscopes because oscilloscopes are used for testing communication signals in the telecom industry.
- For instance, in April 2023, Gogo Business Aviation announced the expansion of its Gogo 5G network into Canada, providing additional coverage to business aviation operators in North America. Gogo 5G is expected to reach average speeds of around 25Mbps and peak speeds in the 75-80Mbps range, allowing passengers to enjoy data-intensive interactive services such as video conferencing, live TV, and gaming at lower and higher throughput.
- In August 2022, Bharti Airtel will launch 5G services later this month to cover 5,000 towns and cities by March 2024. This will drive the market for oscilloscopes.
- For instance, in April 2022, the Ministry of Communications stated that Telecom Service Providers/Infrastructure Providers install mobile towers to improve network coverage and capacity, subject to techno-commercial feasibility and the rollout obligation. The government has established the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) to plan and implement various schemes to build mobile towers and provide telecommunications services to people in the country's rural and remote areas. Oscilloscopes are used in the telecommunication industry to improve network coverage and capacity.
Asia Pacific is Expected to Register the Fastest Growth During the Forecast Period
- With the increasing applications and demand for oscilloscopes in the market, the companies have been collaborating on manufacturing oscilloscopes in the Asia-Pacific region.
- For instance, in August 2022, Advantest Corp. collaborated with the Rohde & Schwarz RTP high-performance oscilloscope for mass production evaluation of high-speed SoC testers. In line with this collaboration, the company aims to improve the quality per the latest requirements.
- The unit is expected to have a high-speed rise time of 33 per second and a powerful, highly stable jitter analysis function with the decomposition algorithm, which enables accurate and simpler accurate system measurements. Further, Advantest also collaborated with R&S RTP high-performance oscilloscope for its high acquisition rate and signal integrity. Such collaborations among the regional companies will fuel the market growth of oscilloscopes in the Asia-Pacific region.
- The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically increased the need for cellular networks. According to the Ericsson Mobility Report, India, Nepal, and Bhutan estimated that the total mobile data traffic in the Indian region will grow fourfold between 2021 and 2027. This is due to the increasing use of smartphones, and the average data traffic per smartphone in the India region is the second highest in the world.
- Further, mobile networks continue to play a pivotal role in driving economic and social inclusion as service providers in India prepare to launch 5G this year. In line with such an increase in the adoption of network services in the Asia-Pacific region, the need for jitter analysis is bound to increase in the market.
- Moreover, the data center market in the Asia Pacific is among the fastest growing and attracting increasing investments from many foreign players. For instance, in April 2022, Digital Edge (Singapore) Holdings Pte. Ltd. announced plans to develop a data center in Incheon, South Korea, through a partnership with SK ecoplant. The companies will jointly build and promote a 120MW hyper-scale data center development project in the National Industrial Complex in Bupyeong-gu, Incheon.