The worldwide wireless LAN market will be impacted by the financial crisis, but the long-term outlook is positive, according to communications market research firm, Infonetics Research.
Infonetics released its fourth quarter edition of its Wireless LAN and WiFi Mesh Equipment and Phones report this week.
Enterprise buyers are upgrading and expanding their wireless infrastructure, despite feeling the effects of the credit crunch, the report reveals.
Matthias Machowinski, Infonetics Research's directing analyst for enterprise voice and data, says: "Declines in the wireless LAN market were broad and deep among virtually all vendors in the fourth quarter of 2008, but Motorola and D-link bucked this trend, and Motorola is now right on Aruba's heels for wireless LAN revenue.”
According to Infonetics, the worldwide wireless LAN equipment market, including access points, mesh network nodes, WLAN switches and controllers, and WiFi phones, started out strong in the first half of 2008, but was impacted by the economic climate in the second half, dropping 4% year-over-year to $2.4 billion in 2008.
The market is down 11% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2008. According to Infonetics, Cisco currently controls the largest share of the worldwide WLAN equipment market, with 52% revenue share (excluding WiFi phones).
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