WLAN spurs enterprise Edge revenue growth

REDWOOD CITY, USA: A new forecast report by Dell'Oro Group reveals that the Enterprise Edge market is expected to approach $15 billion by 2018. Enterprise Edge is the part of the communications market that includes enterprise-class Wireless LAN (WLAN), campus Ethernet switching equipment and related software.

"Enterprises will be enhancing wireless coverage by using high-throughput Enterprise-class 802.11ac WLAN systems that just hit the market in mid-2013," said Chris DePuy, VP of Enterprise Edge research at Dell'Oro Group.

"WLAN Access Points are shared by many users, while Ethernet switch ports are dedicated to specific devices, therefore wireless connections are generally more cost-effective to deploy. We expect this to result in Enterprise Edge connections, or the number of active users, growing by more than 40 percent overall by 2018."

Despite a robust growth forecast for active connections, a similarly dramatic increase in Enterprise Edge revenues overall during this period is not expected.