WLAN switches, WiMAX on the rise

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JEFF CARUSO ON HIGH SPEED LANS
09/08/05
Today's focus: WLAN switches, WiMAX on the rise

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* Market numbers on WLANs, WiMAX
* Links related to High Speed LANs
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Today's focus: WLAN switches, WiMAX on the rise

By Jeff Caruso

With heat and hype at high levels, the wireless portion of the
LAN market gets examined six ways from Sunday. The latest
research looks at wireless LAN switches, as well as WLANs in
relation to WiMAX.

Forward Concepts published a study
<http://www.fwdconcepts.com/wirelan5.htm> of WLAN and WiMAX. The
research firm says WiMAX-related equipment will go from a mere
$72 million market this year to more than $2 billion by 2009.

WiMAX is a wireless technology for longer distances than you can
get with WLANs, and Forward Concepts says it is complementary to
both Wi-Fi (WLANs) and 3G cellular technologies. For example,
WiMAX might provide a backbone for Wi-Fi hot spots.

Meanwhile, Infonetics Research reports that the number of WLAN
switch ports shipped worldwide shot up 52% from the first to the
second quarter of 2005, to 170,000. Revenue grew 55%, $80.8
million.

Infonetics says annual revenue in that market area ought to
exceed $735 million by 2008.

This market is not to be confused with the overall WLAN
equipment market, which actually slipped 1% to $733 million in
the second quarter. Unit shipments were up 7% from the prior
quarter.

Cisco leads the overall WLAN equipment market. Infonetics notes
that the company has had four consecutive quarters with revenue
over $100 million. In second place is Cisco-Linksys (measured
separately, apparently), followed by D-Link and Netgear.

Access points account for 67% of WLAN equipment revenue. Network
interface cards account for 16% - and the rest is in WLAN
infrastructure products.

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Jeff Caruso is managing editor of online news for Network World.
He oversees daily online news posting and newsletter editing,
and writes the NetFlash daily news summary, the High-Speed LANs
newsletter and the Voices of Networking newsletter. Contact him
at <mailto:jcaruso@nww.com>
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