IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Wireless LAN Tracker® greatly enhances clients' ability to quickly and effectively respond to today's dynamic IT market. Understanding which global markets and segments are growing and knowing the quarterly adoption curve for new products are business-critical needs for wireless LAN (WLAN) vendors, supply chain partners, and the Wall Street financial community. This product provides insight into customer trends by delivering geography-specific vendor and product line detail across the WLAN market. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Wireless LAN Tracker presents market data in an easy-to-use pivot table that allows clients to track any markets, countries, and product segments as needed. IDC's tracker products provide reliable, accurate, and independent market research as a base to create quantitative market analyses and study historical trends.

Technology Coverage and Data Segmentation

This tracker provides total market size and vendor shares for the following wireless LAN technologies and segmentations. Units of measurement are in unit shipments, factory revenue, and customer revenue.

Technologies and subtechnologies:

• Product type (controller/router/switch, AP, NIC)
• Product (controller/router/switch, dependent AP, independent AP, gateway/router, NIC)
• Standard (802.11a/b/g, 802.11n)

Segmentations:

• Product class (enterprise, retail)
• Location (indoor, outdoor)

Geographic Scope

• United States
• Canada
• Latin America
• Western Europe (16 countries)
• Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (14 countries)
• Japan
• Central/Eastern Europe (11 countries)
• Middle East/Africa (8 countries)
• Countries:50+

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a quarterly basis in a pivot table format. The delivery schedule for this tracker is as follows:

• Final data is published 10 weeks after the end of each calendar quarter.
• With the purchase of IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Wireless LAN Tracker, clients receive trend explanations and detailed insights, one day of onsite training at any location in the United States, and inquiry time for supporting questions regarding data usage.
• Written analyses, trend explanations, and insights are further provided in research from IDC's Worldwide Enterprise Communications Infrastructure continuous intelligence services (CISs).