Happy New Year and Welcome to 2023!

We at Tempo wish every one of our loyal customers and extended family a most prosperous year.

As we look forward to this year and beyond, Tempo is investigating new and innovative test solutions that marry the needs of our customers with emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) to make things easier, faster, and cheaper.

In the coming months, we will be releasing wireless tools that will truly revolutionize the industry. Stay tuned! In the meantime, there are certain trends we expect to manifest in 2023. Of course, trends are always difficult to predict exactly, but here is our list.

#1. The 5G Ecosystem Will Mature

The 5G rollout has been ongoing for about 3 years now, maybe even longer. We have seen all major carriers across the world with dedicated 5G network infrastructure. The telltale sign here is the feature set of new phones. All new phones now are 5G capable, so one can say the rollout is solidly in play.

The 5G ecosystem will also continue to mature. We foresee more technology partnerships rollout to create 5G services and facilitate avenues for building and managing 5G networks.

Unfortunately, what has not been fully realized is the promised added revenue from 5G. Clear indications that the 5G rollout has caused a noticeable increase in earnings have yet to be realized. Will carriers start to see a windfall in 2023? The jury is still out

#2. Private 5G Moves to Mainstream Deployment

Private 5G has been advertised as one of the top 5G drivers in recent years. In 2023, we predict these deployments will reach the mainstream. Many global operators have made major investments in the development of the 5G SA infrastructure, and these will start to be rolled out this year.

Interestingly, IDC estimates that the private networks (which included both LTE and 5G) will reach $8.3 billion Total Available Market (TAM) by 2026. While adoption has been slower than past projections in 2020 or 2021, the maturation of the technology along with the aforementioned standardization of all new handsets supporting 5G point to finally realizing mainstream deployments in 2023.

#3. Increased Use of Edge Computing

User requirements for lower latency and data reliability will drive higher usage of edge computing. When data and computing resources are physically closer to users, applications for IoT, smart cities, factory automation, and even virtual reality applications can realize their full potential.

The edge compute architecture is facilitated nicely by the rollout of 5G networks. With a more distributed architecture by design, multiple hundreds of nodes can be deployed at critical edge sites. Couple that hardware with increased application development using newer technologies in open APIs, network-as-code, and multi-cloud processing, and edge computing is poised to be one of the fastest areas of growth in the network

While it may be too early to forecast the economics of edge computing, the ability of the architecture to address multiple user needs while delivering low operational expenses may accelerate the promise of windfall revenues for operators in the next 12 to 24 months.

We will revisit our predictions throughout the year as we have more conversations and interactions with our customers.

Once again, we wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous 2023!