Wifi Revolution

The new whitepaper “WiFi (News - Alert) Market Overview: Connectivity Becoming Ubiquitous,” which examines the proliferation of WiFi technology across the ecosystem, is being offered free by In-Stat (News - Alert).

It also looks at other enabling technologies, devices, infrastructure, service providers and services, as well as end-users. Analysis, forecasts, and commentary on WiFi enabled equipment and attach rates in PCs, peripherals, consumer electronics, communications, and industrial applications, as well as services such as hotspots and in-flight broadband are also examined. 

The electronic market is being driven by the constant quest for connectivity. This, in turn is driving manufactures to ensure that all their products are WiFi enabled. Such being the trend, the next five years will see a dramatic increase in the number of WiFi enabled devices, with a projected increase from 550 million in 2009 to nearly 1.7 billion in 2015.

Along with this, technical issues that had constrained WiFi adoption in video-centric devices in the past, will now get sorted out as the new 802.11n enabled devices will extend WiFi capabilities. The ubiquitous adoption of WiFi will pervade the living room and all consumer devices will be WiFi enabled.

Key data points from the whitepaper reveal that e-readers' WiFi attach rated would experience a tremendous leap from 3 percent in 2009 to 88 percent by 2014, by 2013, mobile VoIP apps would generate annual revenues of $32.2 billion, and WiFi chipsets would exceed one billion units shipped annually by 2012. Even WiFi deployed airplanes, 2,000 of them, are expected to be deployed by the end of 2010.