IDC: Increase in WLAN Enterprise Sales in 2012’s Q4

The analyst firm IDC has released news that the Worldwide Quarterly WLAN Tracker for 2012’s Q4 displayed growth in the enterprise and consumer sectors. The report also tracks the WLAN market size and vendor share.

The consumer WLAN market also experienced a quarterly increase totalling 8.2 percent, as well as a year-over-year increase of 6.2 percent for 2012, according to the report by IDC. The enterprise sector experienced its seventh consecutive quarter growth of +20 percent, and a 2012 Q4 increase of 28.5 percent. The year-over-year rate was 26.6 percent for the WLAN enterprise, and combines with the total rate of growth of 18.2 percent.

In terms of geography, the WLAN enterprise witnessed the greatest degree of growth of 43.8 percent (Asia/Pacific) and 53.4 percent (China) for 2012’s Q4. The five leading WLAN enterprise vendors in the last quarter were Cisco (50.6 percent), Aruba (10.5 percent), Ruckus (5.3 percent), HP (5.1 percent) and Motorola Solutions (4.55 percent).

Analysts at IDC refer to the increase in adoption of BYOD, stating that it is a key factor in the survival and growth of the WLAN market. The Vice President of Network Infrastructure at IDC, Rohit Mehra, stated that: “Rapid growth with bring your own device (BYOD) continues to drive increased WLAN infrastructure rollouts in the enterprise, and is the single largest factor driving increased innovation and differentiation in areas such as security policy and application classification. The second key factor driving growth is the increasing use of Wi-Fi by cellular operators and managed service providers, a trend that is likely to drive increased volumes for enterprise-class access points over the next few years.” (CY) Link