The year 2009 witnessed an overall decrease in the IT spendings. Enterprises have put on hold their decisions for technology uptake. However, the WLAN market during 2009 was quite stable, and many organizations did a rethink about their future growth strategy and looked at the new cost efficient wireless options. The enterprise WLAN market increased by more than 15% over the previous year.

The enterprise WLAN revenues have been on a rising route during Q3, courtesy of a stronger demand in 802.11n based access points. At the same time, leveraged demand drove an increase in the size of WLAN deployments.

Making a Buzz

WLAN is becoming the preferred medium of network access, and more and more enterprises are considering the use of secure WLAN as a preferred access method to connect desktops, laptops, printers and all kinds of end devices. An all wireless network uses wireless MESH technology at the network distribution and access layers, thereby providing considerable savings on wiring and the cost of maintenance coupled with the resiliency and security mechanism. It is becoming a big trend especially for the green field deployments.

There has been a substantial amount of innovation and integration of wireless intrusion detection and prevention capabilities in the WLAN solution. With 802.1 and WPA2 encryption, WLAN provides a high level of security. Purpose built sensors for wireless intrusion detection and prevention work in conjunction with a dedicated wireless IP appliance.

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