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Worldwide Enterprise WLAN Market Sees Strong Growth Across Most Regions in the Third Quarter, According to IDC
The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area
network (WLAN) market segments increased 1.8% year over year in the
third quarter of 2016 (3Q16), and increased 6.7% on a sequential basis
to finish at $2.47 billion. According to the International Data
Corporation (IDC)
Worldwide
Quarterly WLAN Tracker, the enterprise segment grew 8.4% year over
year in 3Q16 to finish at $1.45 billion, the second consecutive quarter
of strong growth. The sustained growth observed so far in 2016 can be
attributed to refresh cycles and the funding of digital transformation
initiatives in many enterprises.
The 802.11ac standard now accounts for 67.1% of dependent access point
unit shipments and 80.9% of dependent access point revenues, setting the
stage for near obsolescence of the 802.11n standard by 2018 in the
mainstream enterprise segment.
Meanwhile, consumer WLAN market revenue decreased 6.3% on a
year-over-year basis in 3Q16, finishing at $1.02 billion. The adoption
of the 802.11ac standard in the consumer market has been significantly
slower than in the enterprise segment, coupled with rapid price erosion
on consumer-grade devices. In 3Q16, the 802.11ac standard accounted for
just 25.2% of shipments and 52.7% of revenue in the consumer category.
"In customary fashion, the enterprise WLAN market performed robustly in
the third quarter of the year," said Nolan
Greene, senior research analyst, Network
Infrastructure at IDC (News - Alert). "In every facet of business, and across
different verticals from education to hospitality, mission-critical
functions are continuing to migrate from the wired network to wireless.
This positions the worldwide enterprise WLAN market to continue
performing strongly, even as other markets experience softness."
From a geographic perspective, the enterprise WLAN market saw its
strongest 3Q16 growth coming from Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan)(APeJ),
which increased 28.8% year over year largely on the heels of a 55.7%
increase in China (PRC) over the same period. Japan returned to growth
for the first time since 2014, increasing 7.4%. Western Europe grew 6.7%
in 3Q16, with strong showings in Germany (up 26.7% year over year) and
Spain (up 23.5%). Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) was up 6.3%. The
Czech Republic was the standout performer in CEE, at 67.1%
year-over-year growth. Middle East and Africa (MEA) increased 4.2% on an
annualized basis in 3Q16, helped by Egypt's 84.4% increase over 3Q15.
North America saw a more tepid 2.7% growth rate in the quarter, impacted
by an 8.4% decline in Canada. Latin America was the sole region to
record an overall decline, contracting 2.9% in 3Q16, although Chile (up
17.8% year over year) and Mexico (up 16.8% year over year) were bright
spots.
"With enterprises and service providers investing in digital
transformation-related mobile infrastructure upgrades and ntwork
refreshes, APeJ recorded very strong 3Q16 growth, with most of the other
regions making similar investments albeit on a smaller scale," said Petr
Jirovsky, research manager, Worldwide Networking Trackers. "This
really speaks to the now near universally accepted use of WLAN and
mobility for mission-critical enterprise applications."
Key Enterprise WLAN Vendor Updates:
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Cisco (News - Alert)'s 3Q16 worldwide enterprise WLAN revenue increased 0.4%
year over year in 3Q16. Cisco's worldwide market share came in at
43.7% in 3Q16, virtually unchanged from 2Q16, and down from 47.1% in
3Q15. IDC believes that the Meraki cloud-managed WLAN portfolio
remains one of the primary growth drivers for Cisco, offsetting
declines in its traditional controller-based WLAN portfolio.
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Aruba-HPE (excluding its OEM business and excluding H3C as of
2Q16), increased 5.0% sequentially. Aruba-HPE's market share stands at
14.3% in 3Q16, down from 14.6% in 2Q16.
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Brocade (News - Alert)-Ruckus grew 22.0% year over year in 3Q16.
Brocade-Ruckus accounted for 6.7% of the overall market in 3Q16, down
from 6.8% in 2Q16 and up from 6.3% in 3Q15.
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Huawei (News - Alert) experienced very strong growth in 3Q16, increasing
208.0% over 3Q15, while claiming 4.3% market share, up from 1.5% in
3Q15.
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Ubiquiti also recorded noteworthy growth in 3Q16, increasing
87.0% year over year. Ubiquiti accounted for 4.3% of the overall
market in 3Q16, up from 2.5% in 3Q15.
An interactive graphic showing the relative market shares of the top 5
vendors in the worldwide enterprise WLAN market for 3Q16 is available at here.
Instructions on how to embed this graphic into online news articles and
social media can be found by viewing this
press release on IDC.com.
The IDC Worldwide
Quarterly WLAN Tracker provides total market size and vendors share
data in an easy-to-use Excel Pivot Table format. The geographic coverage
includes 8 major regions (USA, Canada, Latin America, AP excluding
Japan, Japan, Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East
and Africa) and 58 countries. The WLAN market is further segmented by
product class, product type, product, standard, and location.
Measurement for the WLAN market is provided in factory revenue, customer
revenue, and unit shipments.
For more information about IDC's Worldwide Quarterly WLAN Tracker,
please contact Kathy Nagamine ([email protected]).
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