Wi-Fi Equipment Revenue Up 15% in 2004, Units Up 51%
LONDON, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Worldwide Wi-Fi equipment revenue
hit $2.8 billion in 2004, up 15% from 2003, and units reached in
36.1 million, up 51% from 2003, as wireless LAN products continued
to gain traction across all geographic regions, according to
Infonetics Research's quarterly market share service, Wireless LAN
Equipment.
Unit shipments will continue growing through 2008, when they will
reach 80.4 million, 123% more than 2004.
Enterprise and public hotspot
segments continue to fulfill their growth potential, and the
already explosive consumer segment continues to grow
spectacularly, with broadband users upgrading from basic wired
CPE to wireless gateways.
Laptop Battery Due to plummeting ASPs from fierce vendor competition, quarterly
revenue results were stunted: Worldwide revenue dropped 21% to
$619.4 million between 3Q04 and 4Q04, and the downward trend in
revenue is expected to continue over the next few years. Price
erosion continued for
access points, wireless
broadband gateways, and NICs, with 802.11b products in
particular dropping dramatically in price since the launch of
802.11g.
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Thinkpad "In 2004, wireless LANs emerged from a niche technology to
become part of the IT mainstream, as well as a complement to other
networking and wireless technologies," said Richard Webb, directing
analyst at Infonetics and author of the report. "Competition has
increased, driving prices down and spurring on further innovation
in the market as wireless LANs continue to gain acceptance. The
range of applications for wireless LANs is increasing, and we see
VoWLAN (voice over IP over wireless LANs) and RFID tagging in
particular as two of the key applications driving the next phase of
growth through 2005 and beyond."
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Microsoft 4Q04 Market Highlights
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Laptop Computers -- Cisco continues as the worldwide wireless LAN revenue leader,
with 17% market share following its third consecutive
$100-million-plus quarter; Cisco- Linksys maintains second place
with 15%, showing that if taken as a whole, Cisco has a dominant
position in the overall wireless
LAN equipment market
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Desktop Computer -- Behind the four leading vendors, all other vendors claim a
single-digit percentage of overall revenue share: Buffalo, Symbol,
3Com, ZyXEL, US Robotics, and Proxim
Notebooks -- SOHOs and consumers make up 52% of WLAN equipment revenue,
and service providers and enterprises make up 48%
Lenovo -- Close to half of all WLAN equipment revenue comes from North
America, about a quarter from EMEA, a fifth from Asia Pacific, and
4% from CALA
Hard Drive The Wireless LAN Equipment report tracks access points
(standalone APs, standard and secure wireless broadband gateways,
indoor and outdoor bridges), wireless LAN infrastructure (switches,
gateways, controllers, appliances, wireless mesh network systems),
and standard and embedded NICs. Standalone APs are broken out by
SOHO/consumer vs. service provider/enterprise.
Travelstar Forecasts and market share are updated quarterly and cover all
regions (worldwide, North America, EMEA, Asia Pacific, CALA).
Companies tracked include 2Wire, 3Com, Airespace, Ambit, Aruba
Networks, Belkin, Bluesocket, Buffalo Technology, Cisco,
Cisco-Linksys, Colubris, D-Link, Ericsson, Gemtek Systems, HP,
Intel, Meru Networks, Motorola, NETGEAR, Nortel Networks, Proxim,
Symbol, Trapeze Networks, US Robotics, ZyXEL, and others.
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market research and consulting firm covering the data networking
and telecommunications industries in North America, Europe, and
Asia. Infonetics helps companies develop, market, and sell products
and services by providing objective analysis of end-users, service
providers, and product manufacturers. Infonetics has offices in
Silicon Valley, the Boston Metro Area, and London.
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