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shipments and 52.7 % of revenue in the consumer category.
“ In customary fashion, the enterprise WLAN market performed robustly in the third quarter of the year,” said Nolan Greene, senior research analyst, Network Infrastructure at IDC.“ In every facet of business, and across different verticals from education to hospitality, mission-critical functions are continuing to migrate from the wired network to wireless. This positions the worldwide enterprise WLAN market to continue performing strongly, even as other markets experience softness.”
From a geographic perspective, the enterprise WLAN market saw its strongest 3Q16 growth coming from Asia / Pacific( excluding Japan)( APeJ), which increased 28.8 % year over year largely on the heels of a 55.7 % increase in China( PRC) over the same period. Japan returned to growth for the first time since 2014, increasing 7.4 %. Western Europe grew 6.7 % in 3Q16, with strong showings in Germany( up 26.7 % year over year) and Spain( up 23.5 %). Central and Eastern Europe( CEE) was up 6.3 %. The Czech Republic was the standout performer in CEE, at 67.1 % year-overyear growth.
* Middle East and Africa( MEA) increased 4.2 % on an annualised basis in 3Q16, helped by Egypt’ s 84.4 % increase over 3Q15.
North America saw a more tepid 2.7 % growth rate in the quarter, impacted by an 8.4 % decline in Canada. Latin America was the sole region to record
Key Enterprise WLAN vendor updates
Cisco‘ s 3Q16 worldwide enterprise WLAN revenue increased 0.4 % year over year in 3Q16. Cisco’ s worldwide market share came in at 43.7 % in 3Q16, virtually unchanged from 2Q16, and down from 47.1 % in 3Q15. IDC believes that the Meraki cloudmanaged WLAN portfolio remains one of the primary growth drivers for Cisco, offsetting declines in its traditional controller-based WLAN portfolio.
Aruba-HPE( excluding its OEM business and excluding H3C as of 2Q16), increased 5.0 % sequentially. Aruba-HPE’ s market share stands at 14.3 % in 3Q16, down from 14.6 % in 2Q16.
Brocade-Ruckus grew 22.0 % year over year in 3Q16. Brocade-Ruckus accounted for 6.7 % of the overall market in 3Q16, down from 6.8 % in 2Q16 and up from 6.3 % in 3Q15.
Huawei experienced very strong growth in 3Q16, increasing 208.0 % over 3Q15, while claiming 4.3 % market share, up from 1.5 % in 3Q15.
Ubiquiti also recorded noteworthy growth in 3Q16, increasing 87.0 % year-overyear. Ubiquiti accounted for 4.3 % of the overall market in 3Q16, up from 2.5 % in 3Q15.
“ IN EVERY FACET OF BUSINESS, AND ACROSS DIFFERENT VERTICALS FROM EDUCATION TO HOSPITALITY, MISSION- CRITICAL FUNCTIONS ARE CONTINUING TO MIGRATE FROM THE WIRED NETWORK TO WIRELESS. THIS POSITIONS THE WORLDWIDE ENTERPRISE WLAN MARKET TO CONTINUE PERFORMING STRONGLY...”
an overall decline, contracting 2.9 % in 3Q16, although Chile( up 17.8 % year over year) and Mexico( up 16.8 % year over year) were bright spots.
“ With enterprises and service providers investing in digital transformationrelated mobile infrastructure upgrades and network refreshes, APeJ recorded very strong 3Q16 growth, with most of the other regions making similar investments albeit on a smaller scale,” said Petr Jirovsky, research manager, Worldwide Networking Trackers.“ This really speaks to the now near universally accepted use of WLAN and mobility for mission-critical enterprise applications.”
The IDC Worldwide Quarterly WLAN Tracker provides total market size and vendors share data in an easyto-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.
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