GEC NEWS WIREAccording to IDC, Enterprise WLAN Market Grew 14.8% Year over Year in Second Quarter of 2013
The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments increased 10.8% year over year in the second quarter of 2013 (2Q13). According to the preliminary results published in the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly WLAN Tracker, the enterprise segment continued to grow at a very healthy rate and increased 14.8% over the same period last year.
“Across all verticals and geographies, enterprise IT continues to see an explosion of mobility applications running on more devices than ever, resulting in new investments in WLAN infrastructure,” said Rohit Mehra, Vice President, Network Infrastructure. “While growth slowed slightly this quarter compared to previous quarters, the growing mobility needs of education, retail, healthcare, and other distributed enterprise segments will continue to fuel substantial growth in the overall enterprise WLAN market.”
From a geographic perspective, the enterprise WLAN market performed especially well in Latin America with its 38.8% year-over-year growth and in Asia/Pacific where it increased 24.0% year over year in 2Q13. North America followed with a 14.9% year over year increase. Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) grew 6.4% year over year in 2Q13, weaker than the other major regions but still positive and an improvement as macroeconomic conditions continue to gradually improve.
“Although regional and country-level WLAN growth trends varied widely in 2Q13, the worldwide outlook for the enterprise, service provider, and consumer segments remains optimistic due to highly anticipated network upgrade cycles,” said Petr Jirovsky, Senior Research Analyst, Worldwide Networking Trackers Group.
Cisco’s 2Q13 worldwide enterprise WLAN revenue grew 16.7% year over year, slightly above the overall market. HP’s overall enterprise WLAN revenue increased 17.7% year over year in 2Q13 and reached $65.7 million in 2Q13. Ruckus grew a solid 37.3% year over year in 2Q13 and now accounts for 5.5% of the overall market.
