Cisco WLAN market share dropped significantly in Q3

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The wireless local area network (WLAN) market — consumer and enterprise segments – rose 1.8 percent year over year and grew 6.7 percent on sequential basis to $2.47 billion in the third quarter of 2016.

The enterprise segment grew 8.4 percent to $1.45 billion – primarily due to refresh cycles and the funding of digital transformation initiatives in many enterprises, said IDC.

The 802.11ac standard accounts for 67.1 percent of dependent access point unit shipments and 80.9 percent of dependent access point revenues, setting the stage for near obsolescence of the 802.11n standard by 2018 in the mainstream enterprise segment.

Consumer WLAN market revenue fell 6.3 percent to $1.02 billion.

The adoption of the 802.11ac standard in the consumer WLAN market has been significantly slower than in the enterprise segment, coupled with rapid price erosion on consumer-grade devices. The 802.11ac standard accounted for 25.2 percent of shipments and 52.7 percent of WLAN revenue in the consumer category.

Cisco Systems enterprise WLAN revenue increased 0.4 percent. Cisco’s market share fell to 43.7 percent in Q3 2016 from 47.1 percent in Q3 2015.

Aruba-HPE (excluding its OEM business and excluding H3C), increased 5 percent sequentially. Aruba-HPE’s market share dropped to 14.3 percent from 14.6 percent in Q2 2016.

Brocade-Ruckus grew 22 percent year over year in 3Q16. Brocade-Ruckus accounted for 6.7 percent of the overall market against 6.8 percent in Q2 2016 and 6.3 percent in Q3 2015.

Huawei experienced 208 percent growth over Q3 2015. The WLAN market share of Huawei rose to 4.3 percent from 1.5 percent.

Ubiquiti’s WLAN revenue increased 87 percent. Ubiquiti accounted for 4.3 percent of the WLAN market against 2.5 percent.

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