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Thanks to the rapidly growing mobile market, the Communications Equipment industry is ripe with growth prospects. As service providers update their services to accommodate the trend towards smartphones, communication equipment providers have seen demand for their top lines grow due to their specialty in the upgrade and maintenance of the wireless network infrastructure. With such growth potential throughout the industry, companies are fighting harder than ever to secure their respective niches, and this has led to multiple patent infringement cases in the last year.

At the moment there is massive demand for mobile internet, which is only likely to grow going forward. As telecom customers look for smooth transitions to 3G or 4G networks, service providers are trying to cope with the resulting large increases in network traffic. Tellabs has zoned in on this growth driver, and management has claimed throughout the year that it is focused on growth areas in so-called mobile "backhaul solutions."

The Communication Equipment industry has seen a number of peer-to-peer patent infringement lawsuits recently in attempts by companies to slowdown their rivals. Earlier this month, Wi-LAN Chief Executive Jim Skippen said the company won't hesitate to assert its intellectual property rights, and sued Alcatel-Lucent, alleging infringement of a different set of wireless patents. Wi-LAN holds hundreds of wireless patents.

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