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News Release from: Strategy Analytics | Subject: Global Market Forecast
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 July 2006
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Major New Digital Device Opportunity Lures Technology Vendors
The increasing use of broadband wireless home networks will lead to the adoption of a multitude of new wireless home devices over the next 5 years, according to "Wireless Home Devices Global Market Forecast," the latest research from the Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices service This report predicts that consumers worldwide will buy nearly 950 million wireless home devices, such as games consoles, wireless MP3 players and connected TVs, over the next five years
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Leading edge broadband users are keen to make the most of their service by connecting multiple devices to their home network," notes Peter King, Connected Home Devices Service Director.
"Wireless is used on the PC first, but we fully expect many other digital devices to follow the same path to wireless connectivity".
"Strategy Analytics' vision of the digital home is one where a variety of digital devices use wireless home networking technologies to seamlessly interact with each other and with the available broadband and digital services," says David Mercer, VP, Digital Consumer Practice.
"The arrival of the first wave of wireless home devices is a signal that this vision is on the way to becoming realised".
This major new report assesses the global market opportunity for four key wireless home devices segments: home PCs, TV devices, portable media devices and mobile phones.
It also examines the forthcoming transition from current WiFi technologies to next-generation MIMO and 802.11n and provides detailed forecasts for these technologies.
The report predicts that annual demand for MIMO and 802.11n devices will reach 134 million units by 2010.
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