Market Evolution

Wireless LAN adoption in the enterprise has changed dramatically over the last five years. No longer a nice-to-have, almost half of surveyed enterprises report that they are “reliant or very reliant” on wireless LANs within their organization.(1) Even more exciting for Cisco® partners, the same study reveals that wireless LAN adoption is expected to increase dramatically across all industries in the short term, with up to an 83 percent increase in the average number of access points in the next two years.

Multiple factors have led to increased usage, including technology maturity, increased manageability, and higher-speed standards. Early deployments tended to be limited in their scope, but increasingly the trend is to create pervasive deployments as companies experience the benefits of mobility and realize its profound impact on productivity and customer and partner satisfaction. Changing employee demographics are also fueling this trend, as a new generation of workers, with an expectation of who expect instant connection anytime anywhere becomes a larger portion of the workforce.

These trends are combining to create a vast new market. Current estimates indicate that the wireless LAN market will reach $3.6 billion by 2009.  

(1) Wireless LAN Adoption Study, Forrester Research, July 2006
(2) 1Q06, Dell’Oro Group

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