Wi-Fi Gains Traction in the Living Room, but Mobile Devices Still Dominate Shipments
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., February 17, 2009 -
Wi-Fi’s large installed base in mobile PCs and home networks promises that it is likely to be a primary connectivity solution for living room-centric consumer electronics (CE) devices, reports In-Stat http://www.in-stat.com . Attach rates for Wi-Fi among game consoles are already approaching 80%. In-Stat expects DTV to be another high volume driver, reaching nearly 21 million units shipped with Wi-Fi by 2012.
While growth rates and penetration of Wi-Fi in the living room is growing, Wi-Fi is still dominated by the huge volume of mobile Wi-Fi devices. Beyond the already established notebook PC segment, Portable Media Players shipped with Wi-Fi will grow to well over 100 million units in 2011 and cellular/Wi-Fi handsets will pass 300 million units by 2012.
“Finalization of IEEE 802.11n will remedy some of the technical issue that constrained Wi-Fi adoption in video-centric CE devices,” says Victoria Fodale, In-Stat analyst. "We expect the adoption of Wi-Fi in the living room to accelerate. However, mobile device shipments will still out number stationary CE devices by nearly ten to one."
Recent research by In-Stat found the following:
By 2012, shipments of CE devices with Wi-Fi are expected to reach more than 938 According to In-Stat research, there were over 87 million wireless networks in the home in 2007.
Residential gateways are expected to show the strongest growth among Wi-Fi home aggregator devices, which include SOHO/home routers, residential gateways, and standalone access points (APs).
This research is part of In-Stat’s Wireless LAN service, which examines new applications for Wireless LAN (WLAN) in the business, home, and public sector. Covers emerging technology trends, as well as extension technologies like wireless mesh networking. Included are forecasts, market perspectives, and segmentation (by technology and application) for WLAN chipsets and end-products.
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