Double-Digit Growth Expected in WLAN Market

According to a report from Dell'Oro Group, Wireless LAN (WLAN) revenue is expected to grow 11% in 2025 after the 2024 contraction comes to an end. Wi-Fi 7 adoption will escalate in 2025 and will represent over a third of indoor access point (AP) revenues.

"The growth of Wi-Fi 7 shipments has been quite dramatic in 2Q and 3Q 2024," said Siân Morgan, Research Director at Dell'Oro Group. "We expect Wi-Fi 7 adoption to continue on this upward trend; shipments of the new technology should overtake shipments of Wi-Fi 6E by mid-2025."

"In North America and Europe, we are seeing WLAN vendors' software revenues escalate," added Morgan. "This is expected to continue over the next five years, contributing to a divergence in price with China."

More WLAN insights from the report

Dell'Oro also says that there is growth expected in public cloud-managed WLAN that will outpace the market over a five-year period.

The group also reports that WLAN revenues are expected to grow in China, and that Wi-Fi 8 AP shipments are expected in 2028, with a focus on reliability rather than capacity expansion.