Wi-Fi Market To Hit $3.1B By 2007

The Wireless LAN-802.11 market will grow from $1.5 billion in 2002 to $3.1 billion by 2007, according to market research firm Dell’Oro Group. The group said in its “Wireless LAN FiveYear Forecast” that most products will transition from 802.11b to 802.11g and then to 802.11 Multimode (802.11a/g), with the exception being Enterprise-class access points.

“As the barriers to WLAN deployments in the Enterprise fall and as WLAN clients and networks proliferate outside of the Enterprise, we will see increased penetration of WLAN in Enterprise environments,” the study said.