Worldwide WLAN Market Shows Slowing Growth in Q3

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• Cisco's 3Q15 worldwide enterprise WLAN revenue grew 3.5% year over year, slightly ahead of the 2.8% increase Cisco saw in the second quarter but just below the overall market. Cisco's worldwide market share came in at 48.0% in 3Q15, down from the 48.3% seen in 3Q14, but up from 47.3% in 2Q15. IDC believes that the Meraki cloud-managed WLAN portfolio remains one of the primary growth drivers for Cisco.
• HP (combining HP and Aruba but excluding its OEM business) outperformed the overall market in 3Q15 and grew 11.8% year over year and 8.5% quarter over quarter. HP's market share stands at 17.4% in 3Q15, up from 17.1% in 2Q15 and 16.2% in 3Q14.
• Ruckus had another strong quarter in 3Q15, growing 16% year over year and 7.6% quarter over quarter. Ruckus currently accounts for 7.0% of the overall market, up from 6.3% in 3Q14.
• Aerohive rebounded in 3Q15 and grew 14.1% year over year and 13.2% quarter over quarter benefitting from its relatively strong position in the K-12 education vertical, which resulted in taking more than its fair share of the E-Rate spend in US.

The IDC Worldwide Quarterly WLAN Tracker provides total market size and vendors share data in an easy-to-use Excel Pivot Table format. The geographic coverage includes eight major regions (USA, Canada, Latin America, AP excluding Japan, Japan, Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa) and 58 countries. The WLAN market is further segmented by product class, product type, product, standard, and location. Measurement for the WLAN market is provided in vendor revenue, value, and unit shipments.

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