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15 Jun 2010
The global wireless LAN (WLAN) market is set to surge past the $5bn mark this year on the back of a 20 per cent annual spike in first quarter sales.
According to a report from the Dell'Oro Group, sales during 2010's first three months grew by a fifth on the corresponding period last year. The market endured a torrid start to 2009, with Q1 revenue slumping 15 per cent sequentially as enterprise sales dried up.
But Dell'Oro reports that the enterprise space is in rude health once more, posting record quarterly revenue in 2010's opening quarter. High-end sales grew at double the rate of the overall market.
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A number of WLAN vendors also enjoyed record quarterly sales in Q1, with Alcatel-Lucent, Aruba, Meru, Motorola, Netgear and Trapeze all surpassing their previous high-water mark. Loren Shalinsky, senior analyst of WLAN research for Dell'Oro, predicted that global sales this year would comfortably beat the previous annual high, set in 2008.
“First quarter enterprise WLAN revenues are traditionally the low point of the year, as we have seen every year since we started tracking this market in 2002," he added. "We forecast that the record enterprise revenues during the first quarter will help propel the overall market to over $5bn this year."
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