Enterprise Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) market grew 14.8% Year over Year (YoY) in second quarter of 2013, says the International Data Corporation (IDC).
According to preliminary results published in the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly WLAN Tracker, the combined consumer and enterprise WLAN market segments increased 10.8% year over year in the second quarter of 2013 (2Q13).
The result shows that while the pace of the enterprise WLAN market growth is starting to slow from the 20%-plus year-over-year increases witnessed in the last several years, the enterprise WLAN market continues to be one of the fastest growing networking markets out there.
The consumer WLAN market also performed well in 2Q13 and increased 6.5% year over year, which was on par with the consumer WLAN results in 1Q13.
“Across all verticals and geographies, enterprise IT continues to see an explosion of mobility applications running on more devices than ever, resulting in new investments in WLAN infrastructure,” said Rohit Mehra, Vice President, Network Infrastructure. “While growth slowed slightly this quarter compared to previous quarters, the growing mobility needs of education, retail, healthcare, and other distributed enterprise segments will continue to fuel substantial growth in the overall enterprise WLAN market.”
From a geographic perspective, the enterprise WLAN market performed especially well in Latin America with its 38.8% year-over-year growth and in Asia/Pacific where it increased 24.0% year over year in 2Q13. North America followed with a 14.9% year over year increase. Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) grew 6.4% year over year in 2Q13, weaker than the other major regions but still positive and an improvement as macroeconomic conditions continue to gradually improve.
“Although regional and country-level WLAN growth trends varied widely in 2Q13, the worldwide outlook for the enterprise, service provider, and consumer segments remains optimistic due to highly anticipated network upgrade cycles,” said Petr Jirovsky, Senior Research Analyst, Worldwide Networking Trackers Group.
On Key Enterprise WLAN Vendor Updates, IDC said that Cisco’s 2Q13 worldwide enterprise WLAN revenue grew 16.7% year over year, slightly above the overall market.
Cisco’s 2Q13 enterprise WLAN revenue reached a record $581 million in the quarter. The North American market was especially strong for Cisco this quarter and now accounts for 58.4% of worldwide revenue, up from 48.8% in 1Q13. Cisco’s worldwide market share stands at 53.7% in 2Q13, its highest share since 4Q10.
Aruba (excluding its OEM business) grew its enterprise revenue 13.6% year over year in the second quarter, which was, in essence, on par with the overall market and an improvement over the 8.5% year-over-year increase Aruba experienced in 1Q13. Aruba now holds 11% of the enterprise WLAN market.
HP’s overall enterprise WLAN revenue increased 17.7% year over year in 2Q13 and reached $65.7 million in 2Q13. This was a noticeable improvement in annual growth when compared to HP’s results for the last few quarters. As a result, HP’s market share increased to 6.0% of the market in 2Q13, up from 5.4% in 1Q13.
Ruckus grew a solid 37.3% year over year in 2Q13 and now accounts for 5.5% of the overall market.
The IDC Worldwide Quarterly WLAN Tracker provides total market size and vendors share data in an easy-to-use Excel Pivot Table format. The geographic coverage includes 8 major regions (USA, Canada, Latin America, AP excluding Japan, Japan, Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa) and 58 countries.
The WLAN market is further segmented by product class, product type, product, standard, and location. Measurement for the WLAN market is provided in factory revenue, customer revenue, and unit shipments.