Hospitals to spend $4B on DAS by 2015, In-Stat says

Hospitals and healthcare expenditures for distributed antenna systems (DAS) are expected to top $4 billion in 2015, according to new research from In-Stat L.L.C., which is part of the NPD Group.
“DAS is a technology that is roughly a decade old, but the new challenge to DAS contractors is to facilitate wideband signal channels,” said Chris Kissel, an analyst with In-Stat. “Passive DAS networks are giving way to active DAS. Also DAS contractors are differentiating themselves by how many frequency bands their networks can support, the costs of the installations, and the types of applications their systems can integrate, which is especially true in the hospital and healthcare fields.”
DAS is being deployed in a number of vertical markets to improve coverage, as an alternative to traditional base stations and because DAS installations can be easily camouflaged, In-Stat said. Global DAS revenue is expected to surpass $13 billion in 2015, with more than 20% revenue growth in the Caribbean and Latin America, the research firm said. In Eastern Europe, deployments will start modestly, but grow to nearly 4,000 deployments in 2015.
In-Stat’s research covers eight vertical markets and six regions.