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Q4 2007 Worldwide Wireless LAN & Mesh Market Shares
Voice Applications Continue to Drive Adoption of WLANs in the Enterprise

RENO, NV and STERLING, VA – February 22, 2008 – Synergy Research Group and Current Analysis today announced the availability of the Synergy Q4 2007 Worldwide Wireless LAN and Mesh Market Share report. Q4 year-over-year sales for Enterprise WLAN equipment were up 10%, driven primarily by strength in sales for next-generation centralized infrastructure. Total sales for WLAN and mesh equipment increased 2% quarter to quarter to $1.21 billion and were up 16% in 2007 compared to 2006.

"Overall, the market for WLAN infrastructure continues to be positively impacted by general enterprise adoption and the continued growth in the size of average enterprise deployments; growth is also being driven by applications such as mobile VoIP, location services, and guest access," says Aaron Vance, Senior Analyst at Synergy Research Group. "The market has significant growth potential going forward as enterprises transition from distributed networks to more centralized, manageable, and secure architectures."

In Q4, the market for VoWLAN phones climbed 10% to $17.1 million while year-over-year sales were up 35%. Growth in the quarter was driven by Cisco, which shipped nearly twice as many phones in Q4 as it did in Q2. Nonetheless, Synergy anticipates that sales of single-mode VoWLAN handsets will soon wane given the anticipation of dual-mode phones with both WLAN (WiFi) and cellular (e.g., GSM, etc.) capabilities.

The market for service provider WiFi mesh nodes increased 6% in the quarter to $171.3 million and grew 96% compared to 2006. Market share leaders for the year were Tropos, Strix, BelAir, Alvarion, and Nortel. Growth in this segment is being driven by service provider and municipal deployments worldwide.

The wireless LAN and mesh market segmentation is based on Synergy’s domain expertise, and numbers derived from a proven methodology that reconciles vendor-reported shipments (bottoms-up measurement) with publicly reported revenue results (top-down measurement) to provide the utmost accuracy. A detailed definition of the market is available in the full report

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	Market Coverage
	Enterprise WLAN Infrastructure WLAN Autonomous Access Points WLAN Switches & Controllers WLAN Dependent Access Points Enterprise VoIP Wireless Phones Enterprise WLAN Client Devices Service Provider Wi-Fi Mesh Nodes	SOHO/Home WLAN PCI & PCMCIA SOHO/Home WLAN USB Home WLAN CF SOHO/Home WLAN Client Bridge SOHO/Home Digital Media Devices SOHO/Home APs & Gateways

	Companies Tracked
	Alvarion Aruba BelAir Belkin BlueSocket	Buffalo Cisco C/Linksys D-Link Extreme	Foundry Motorola/Symbol NETGEAR Nortel ProCurve	Proxim SpectraLink Strix Tropos ZyXEL

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