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December 2005: WLAN Market Overview

Worldwide LAN equipment revenue grew to $735.6 million in the third quarter 2005, and is expected to reach $4.2 billion by 2008.
WLAN switch revenue jumped 18% to $95.1 million and is forecast to reach $746.5 million in 2008.
Source: Infonetics Research.

Public WLAN

Wireless LANs have begun to spread into the public arena as well.
These public area access locations, are called "hotspots"
Sept. 2004: Goldman Sachs estimates there are currently 100M Wi-Fi users worldwide. Wi-Fi use grew 70% in 2003. In-Stat/MDR estimates 95% of laptops sold in 2005 will have built-in Wi-Fi capability.

Live television to Wi-Fi-enabled devices in public hot-spots

May 2005: Top Ten Unwired Places in the United States:

1. Seattle, Washington
2. San Francisco-San Jose-Oakland, California
3. Austin, Texas
4. Portland, Oregon-Vancouver, Washington
5. Toledo, Ohio
6. Atlanta, Georgia
7. Denver, Colorado
8. Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina
9. Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
10. Orange County, California

802.11x

By 2005, despite the recession and lower corporate budgets for information technology, some 90 percent of all professionals and telecommuters expect to use high-speed wireless data, two-thirds of all corporations expect to make critical enterprise applications available wirelessly.

Wi-Fi North America

The number of frequent Wi-Fi users in North America is expected to grow from 4.2 million in 2003 to over 31 million in 2007. The astounding demand for Wi-Fi has helped fuel over $1 billion (U.S.) in new wireless hardware sales for 2002. That number is expected to double in 2003 and grow to more than $3 billion by the end of 2004.

The number of Wi-Fi hot spots (points where users can connect to the Internet without wires) is exploding. Many companies are creating them to attract tech savvy consumers to their facilities. For example, Starbucks (Nasdaq:SBUX) already has 2,000 hot spots and McDonalds (NYSE:MCD) should have 300 by the end of the year. The number of commercial hot spots will jump from an estimated 9,700 this year to nearly 50,000 by 2006.

Aug 5, 2003:
SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC), the No. 2 U.S. local telephone company, unveiled a plan to deploy more than 20,000 hot spots in hotels, airports, convention centers and other venues frequented by business customers in its 13-state territory by the end of 2006.

Wi-Fi Standards 802.11x

Broadband Speed Testing

Short Range Wireless Technologies

June 2004: Electronics makers are pushing two short-range wireless technologies, Bluetooth and Ultra Wideband. Ultra Wideband is a year away from launch and, unlike Bluetooth, can transfer vast amounts of data between devices, which is needed to stream video from a DVD player or transfer pictures from a digital camera to a computer. The devices have to be a few meters apart, which means it will not compete with Wi-Fi, which covers a 100 meter radius. Bluetooth is an energy-efficient replacement of wire connections for modest amounts of information. It is used between cell phones and peripherals such as microphones, for hands-free calling in cars and to control industrial equipment, among other connections.

Bluetooth

Bluetooth enables easy synchronization of mobile devices with PC applications, data exchange and m-commerce applications within a radios of 10 meters (best case up to 100 meters). Hardware that complies with the Bluetooth wireless specification ensures communication compatibility worldwide (adopted by component and device manufacturers). It has the potential of becoming the standard for short-range, peer-to-peer and home networking of devices and appliances.

NFC

ZigBee


 
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