The wireless LAN market revenue grew at 29.7 percent in the second quarter of 2011, reaching $1.52 billion (excluding WLAN NICs), according to IDC.

 

 

 

 

Cisco’s 2Q11 enterprise WLAN revenue grew at 36.2 percent year over year, and 11.9 percent sequentially. However, its market share decreased to just over 50 percent.

 

 

 

 

Aruba (including its OEM business) increased 8.6 percent sequentially after a very good 1Q11, but had a strong 52.2 percent year over year growth.

 

 

 

 

HP’s 2Q11 enterprise WLAN revenue grew a strong 65.8 percent year over year and 35.9 percent sequentially after a weaker first quarter.

 

 

 

 

MSI (Motorola Solutions) 2Q11 enterprise WLAN revenue, after several lackluster quarters, increased a healthy 52.7 percent year over year with a market leading sequential growth of 112.8 percent.

 

 

 

 

The global WLAN market also experienced sequential growth, with total revenue increasing 13.4 percent over the first quarter of 2011. The enterprise WLAN market segment had one of its best quarters of year-over-year performance, with revenues growing 43.4 percent to nearly $725 million, and also growing sequentially by 21.9 percent.

 

 

 

 

Enterprise mobility has emerged as one of the key priorities for CIOs and IT managers across all geographies, and the growth of WLAN market revenues during the second quarter is a clear testament to that market dynamic,” said Rohit Mehra, director, Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, at IDC.

 

 

 

 

The tremendous momentum behind smart mobile devices and their continued uptake in the enterprise for business and vertical-specific applications are driving enterprises to move forward with upgrades and extensions of their wireless networks,” Mehra added.

 

 

 

 

Specifically, 802.11n deployments in the enterprise reached 79.1 percent of revenues and 66.6 percent of unit shipments, showing a surprisingly high continued uptake in some geographic and other segments for legacy 802.11 devices. However, the trend towards 802.11n becoming the de facto wireless standard stays intact.

 

 

 

 

The retail-class WLAN market also showed good growth in 2Q11 after a strong prior quarter, growing 19.4 percent year over year to reach $800 million, and growing 6.6 percent sequentially.

 

 

 

 

Netgear was the strong performer is this segment, doubling its revenue year over year to reach nearly $200 million, while D-Link also grew year over year by 18.6 percent. Cisco’s Linksys underperformed in this segment, with a year over year decline of 21.4 percent.

 

 

 

 

Recently, IDC announced that NETGEAR revenue grew 40 percent year-over-year in 1Q11 in SOHO segment of wireless LAN market globally.

 

 

 

 

According to the report, Buffalo and NETGEAR established new high levels for SOHO revenue during the first quarter of 2011, with Buffalo growing more than 30 percent and NETGEAR growing more than 40 percent, versus the same quarter last year.  

 

 

 

 

By Telecomlead.com Team
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