Continued Market Recovery Driven by Adoption of Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 Standards
NEEDHAM, Mass., June 17, 2025 – The enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market grew 10.6% in the first quarter of 2025 (1Q25) compared to 1Q24 to reach $2.3 billion as the market’s growth momentum continued from the previous quarter, according to results published in the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly WLAN Tracker.
Annualized growth in the first quarter of 2025 builds on growth momentum in 2024, when market revenues increased in each sequential quarter of 2024, including rising 4.8% between the third and fourth quarters of 2024 and growing 5.8% between the second and third quarters of 2024. The market’s supply and demand dynamics are stabilizing after two years of volatility driven largely by the drawdown of backlogged product orders stemming from the COVID-19-era global supply chain crisis.
Meanwhile, the latest Wi-Fi standards are driving growth in the enterprise WLAN market. Wi-Fi 6E, which enables Wi-Fi to utilize the 6GHz band of unlicensed spectrum, accounted for 31.9% of dependent access point market segment revenues in 1Q25, compared to making up 27.7% of the segment’s revenues a year earlier. Wi-Fi 7 adoption increased in the first quarter too, making up 11.8% of the dependent AP segment’s revenues in 1Q25, growing from 10.2% of dependent AP revenues in 4Q24.
From a geographical perspective, in the Americas, the enterprise WLAN market increased 15.2% year-over-year (YoY) in 1Q25, driven by strong growth of 21.0% in the United States. In the Europe, Middle East & Africa region, the market grew 11.0% YoY, while in the Asia Pacific region, revenues grew 1.0% YoY, as market revenues in the People’s Republic of China declined 4.2% YoY.
“The Enterprise WLAN markets continues to reset after a volatile period of annualized growth rates, driven by complex supply chain disruptions and inventory management issues impacting both vendors and end users,” says Brandon Butler, senior research manager, Enterprise Networks, IDC. “The fundamentals of the enterprise WLAN market remain strong, however, with exciting innovations such as 6GHz Wi-Fi and AI-powered management capabilities continuing to power the next-generation of wireless connectivity.”
Below are results from notable enterprise WLAN vendors:
- Cisco’s enterprise WLAN revenues rose 4.6% YoY in 1Q25 to reach $904.5 million, giving the company market share of 39.5%.
- HPE Aruba Networking revenues grew 10.7% YoY in 1Q25 to reach $363.9 million, giving the company market share of 15.9%.
- Ubiquiti enterprise WLAN revenues increased 50.9% YoY in 1Q25 to reach $267.4 million, giving the company market share of 11.7%.
- Huawei enterprise WLAN revenues declined 10.7% YoY in 1Q25 to total $124.1 million, giving the company market share of 5.4%.
- Juniper Networks’ enterprise WLAN revenues increased 21.9% YoY in 1Q25 to total $120.9 million, giving the company market share of 5.3%.
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 nine major regions (USA, Canada, Latin America, People’s Republic of China, Asia/Pacific excluding Japan & China, Japan, Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, and Middle East and Africa) and 60 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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