"Wireless LAN investment continues to be driven by enterprises moving more of their campus and branch office networking budgets from fixed to wireless to support increasingly mobile-centric user device access at the LAN edge," said Canalys Principal Analyst Matthew Ball.
The transition to 11ac continued to accelerate during the first quarter of 2014, following the start of customer adoption in Q3 2013. Just over 10% of access point shipments were estimated to be 11ac.
"The initial focus for deployments has been to support the growing number of certified 11ac smart phones, tablets and notebooks entering the workplace, as well as to increase the performance of existing environments with high densities of 11n clients," Ball added. "Deployments are beginning to move beyond the early adopter phase, which has been led by the education sector, into the broader enterprise and mid-market. This is being catalysed by vendors expanding their 11ac access point portfolios with more entry level and affordable models."
In Q1 2014, wireless LAN shipments increased 11% year on year to US$1.1 billion, but were down 8.4% sequentially in line with seasonal trends. Cisco remained the market leader, accounting for 53% of shipments, but specialist vendors gained share, in particular Aruba Networks, Ruckus Wireless, Aerohive Networks and Ubiquiti Networks, all of which are capitalising on growth in 11ac, controllerless solutions and service providers. Together, these vendors now represent 28% of shipments, up from 21% a year ago.
Overall, growth this quarter was strongest among micro (39%) and small (17%) businesses, with medium-sized (12%) businesses also doing well. Together, these companies accounted for 37% of shipments. Sales from large enterprises also increased (7%) and remain the biggest addressable segment, accounting for 53% of shipments. Service providers (17%) accounted for the remaining 10%, with many continuing to invest in expanding Wi-Fi hotspot coverage and cellular data offloading capabilities, particularly cable providers.
In Q1 2014, wireless LAN shipments increased 11% year on year to US$1.1 billion, but were down 8.4% sequentially in line with seasonal trends. Cisco remained the market leader, accounting for 53% of shipments, but specialist vendors gained share, in particular Aruba Networks, Ruckus Wireless, Aerohive Networks and Ubiquiti Networks, all of which are capitalising on growth in 11ac, controllerless solutions and service providers. Together, these vendors now represent 28% of shipments, up from 21% a year ago.
Overall, growth this quarter was strongest among micro (39%) and small (17%) businesses, with medium-sized (12%) businesses also doing well. Together, these companies accounted for 37% of shipments. Sales from large enterprises also increased (7%) and remain the biggest addressable segment, accounting for 53% of shipments. Service providers (17%) accounted for the remaining 10%, with many continuing to invest in expanding Wi-Fi hotspot coverage and cellular data offloading capabilities, particularly cable providers.
Service providers are also evaluating analytics and location-based services to add value to their Wi-Fi services, including more targeted and contextual advertising.
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