Enterprise Products Drive Wireless LAN Market Revenue Growth .SOHO Market Sees Double Digit Revenue and Shipment Growth in 2005

Dell'Oro: Global. The trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, reveals that the enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) market posted strong results in the last quarter of 2005, growing 29 percent year-over-year to $263 million, primarily on strong sales of dependent access points and WLAN Switch/Server/Appliances. Similarly, for the full-year 2005, the enterprise WLAN market also posted strong revenue results, growing 20 p percent as dependent—or thin—access point shipments tripled and WLAN Switch/Server/Appliance shipments doubled.

The sales of small office and home office (SOHO) WLAN equipment during 2005 increased 14 percent and unit shipments surged 33 percent.

Wireless LAN equipment in the SOHO market is still used primarily to share a broadband connection We estimate over one-third of broadband subscribers had WLAN functionality at the end of 2005, up from approximately 25 percent at the end of 2004. Broadband services, including data, voice, and video, will increasingly rely on Wireless LANs to distribute content and services to multiple devices in the home,.

4Q05 Total world wide Enterprise Wireless LAN Market Leaders (Revenue)
Total Market	4Q05
MFG Revenue ($ M)	$ 263
Vendor	Rank
Cisco	1
Symbol	2
Aruba	3

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