Coming Soon: Fixed Wireless Network Report 2024 Q1
New year, new Fixed Wireless Network Report from Preseem 🥳
As we speak type, our data experts are busy putting the finishing touches on the latest edition of the report. We’ll be revealing their findings in full within the next week or so. If you’re not already a subscriber, be sure to sign up now to be notified when the new edition drops.
If you’re not familiar with our report, each year our data experts comb through billions of metrics that Preseem collects daily from our customers. We then turn those numbers into detailed and engaging industry reports that you can’t find anywhere else.
Subscriber Usage Continues to Rise
One eye-opening result from this year’s Fixed Wireless Network Report is that the average subscriber’s download usage is 12.46 GB per day, or 386 GB per month, an increase of 17% year-over-year.
This is an average number across all subscribers at hundreds of ISPs worldwide currently using Preseem. As might be expected, there’s significant variation between groups of subscribers, with the biggest numbers at both extremes of the spectrum.
As shown in the chart below, 27% of subscribers actually use less than 1 GB of download usage per day, well below the 12.46 GB average we quoted above. However, 23% of subscribers use more than 16 GB per day (half a TB per month!), a 3% increase from the previous year.
Network Latency During Peak Time is Down
The good news for all those heavy users on your networks is that overall network latency is trending down, even during the busiest hours of the day.
At Preseem, we measure latency by tracking the roundtrip time for individual TCP segments. This provides a detailed view of latency across the network, to the tune of thousands of latency samples per second, per subscriber. As a result, you get a true measurement of latency all the way to the subscriber’s home.
After crunching all those latency data points, our analysts found that peak latency among our customers has dropped 9% year-over-year. The improvement in latency indicates that operators are upgrading their networks appropriately to keep up with the rise in subscriber demand. Nice job operators! 👏
Changes in AP Vendor Market Share
We also look at access point metrics in our annual report, including AP market share, connected subscribers by AP model, and download/upload throughput during peak by vendor and model.
For market share, we consider two metrics: the percentage of the fixed wireless market by the number of APs, and the percentage of the market by subscriber count. In both cases, the clear leaders are Ubiquiti and Cambium, with Cambium supporting a higher density of subscribers on a smaller number of APs.
Both Ubiquiti and Tarana made the biggest leaps in terms of number of CPEs in use, at 2.5% and 1.5% gains respectively. Tarana also made the largest jump in number of APs at 0.8% growth (which represents close to a 100% leap in number of APs), and now ranks fourth overall behind Ubiquiti, Cambium, and Mikrotik in both categories.
Before we give everything away, we’ll stop it there 🙂 There are loads more interesting insights and stats to look forward to in this year’s report, including:
- Average subscriber bandwidth and data usage across service speeds
- Throughput and latency performance by model
- AP vendor comparisons: Which ones live up to the hype?
- Wi-Fi vs. LTE vs. custom PHY: How do they hold up under contention?
- MIMO and NLOS systems performance trends
