| This story's actually about WPA but included are some stats from Gartner. ElectricNews.net:News:Wi-Fi Alliance toughens 802.11 security : According to research body Gartner Dataquest, worldwide wireless LAN shipments should increase by 73 percent in 2002, while revenue will increase 26 percent. Gartner predicts that by 2003, WLAN shipments will total 26.5 million units, up from 15.5 million units in 2002, while revenue will reach almost USD2.8 billion in 2003, compared to USD2.1 billion in 2002. Gartner analysts say the market will continue to experience healthy growth through to 2007. So in very broad terms we have exponential growth in shipments, linear growth in revenue and falling profits. What seems to be happening is that falling prices due to competition is happening earlier and earlier in the price curve and before the early adopters have paid off all the capital costs with the initial high prices. This is a new form of economics isn't it? I think I've seen some other figures that suggest that Wireless ethernet shipments are now 30% of all ethernet shipments but I can't confirm that. [from: JB Wifi] |
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