WiFi market revenues to reach $12 billion in 2017, 50% more compared to 2012

25 July 2013
Ray Sharma
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With WiFi offloading fast becoming a necessary feature across heterogenous networks, especially for network optimisation and ROI enhancement reasons, revenues from this sub-segment is expected to be on the rise. A recent report by Dell'Oro Group confirmed the strong upward trend in the WiFi segment, with market revenues expected to approach $12 billion in 2017, up 50% from the 2012 figures. According to the report, some of the other factors behind this trend include the high demand for video streaming over WiFi and the increase in Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) practices in various workplaces.

In the report, there is a forecast chart for cloud-managed equipment and cloud-managed services revenue. Also included in the report are estimates on total SP WiFi units and revenue forecasts, and an analysis.

“Enterprises now see wireless LAN access as critical, yet historically have installed wireless as an overlay network that is separate from the Ethernet network,” said Chris DePuy, Vice President at Dell’Oro Group.“As new, higher-speed 802.11ac wireless systems are installed, we expect a growing number of companies will be re-considering the interaction between Ethernet edge switches and enterprise WLAN devices. This provides both opportunity and risk for Enterprise Edge vendors.”

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