Cisco's Transition to New Architecture Drives Enterprise Wireless LAN Market Revenue Growth in the First Quarter 2006, According to Dell'Oro Group; SOHO Market Grows Modestly.REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. -- A recently published report from Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. industries, reveals that the enterprise wireless LAN A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area (WLAN See wireless LAN. WLAN - wireless local area network ) market posted strong results in the first quarter of 2006, growing 48 percent year-over-year to $290 million. The report also shows a distinct transition of sales to newer architecture equipment, consisting of dependent access points (APs) managed by switch/appliances, which grew 54 percent during the first quarter. This increase more than compensated for a 22 percent decline in sales of autonomous APs and server/appliances. "IT managers can more easily control large scale WLAN deployments with this new architecture," said Greg Collins Gregory Vincent Collins (born December 8, 1952 in Troy, Michigan) was a former professional American football player who played in three NFL seasons from 1975-1977 for the San Francisco 49ers, the Seattle Seahawks and the Buffalo Bills. , Senior Director of Wireless LAN Research at Dell'Oro Group. "Cisco effectively leveraged its Airespace acquisition by more than doubling its sales of dependent access points plus switch/appliances in the first quarter," Collins added. In the small office and home office (SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. ) market, equipment sales in the first quarter of 2006 grew only 3 percent over the seasonally strong fourth quarter of 2005. SOHO products based on the draft-802.11n standard started to ship in the second quarter, but will not impact the market until later this year.
1Q06 Total Worldwide Dependent AP plus Switch/Appliance Wireless LAN
Market Leaders (Revenue)
Total Market 1Q06
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Manufacturers' Revenue $173 million
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Cisco 1
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Aruba (brand only) 3
About the Report The Dell'Oro Group Quarterly Wireless LAN report offers complete, in-depth coverage of the market with tables covering manufacturers' revenue, average selling prices The average sales price of goods or commodities. Especially used in the retail sector and technology distribution. , and unit shipments (by technology 802.11b, 802.11g, and multimode (802.11a/g)), for access points-enterprise and SOHO, broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). gateways, network interface cards/client devices. Wireless LAN server/switch/appliances are also reported. To purchase this report, call Nancy Shawver on +1.650.622.9400 x223 or email Nancy@DellOro.com. About Dell'Oro Group As the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, Dell'Oro Group provides in-depth, objective research and analysis that enable component manufacturers, equipment vendors, and investment firms to make fact-based, strategic decisions. For more information, contact Dell'Oro Group at +1.650.622.9400 or visit www.DellOro.com. |
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