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News Release from: Venture Development Corp
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 February 2007
Wireless Ethernet increases industrial
penetration
Market study on industrial network infrastructure finds extensive deployment of wireless Ethernet (Wi-Fi) networking, with an increasing trend toward even greater usage.
In a recently completed six-volume market study on global markets and user requirements for wireless and wireline network infrastructure products used in industrial facilities, Venture Development Corp (VDC) finds extensive deployment of wireless Ethernet (Wi-Fi) networking, with an increasing trend toward even greater usage Of the infrastructure products studied, shipments using proprietary protocols, principally in the 900MHz and 2.4GHz bands, accounted for the highest share of worldwide shipments in 2006, at about 47% of the total
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Dec 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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However, the shipment growth rate for these is forecast at below average, and the shipment share is expected to decline to about 44% in 2011.
Several factors will account for the trend to higher growth in use of wireless standards.
These include the established base and familiarity among both engineers and IT departments with IEEE802.11 and other standards.
Advantages of using standard networks include lower prices, interchangeable suppliers and established best practices (including security and interference protection, and ease of installation).
In 2006, products under study incorporating wireless Ethernet IEEE802.11 standards accounted for almost 44% of worldwide shipments, and are forecast to account for over 48% in 2011.
In this explosive market, the highest shipment growth rate is expected for products using the IEEE802.11 standards.
Of the total market gain of $868.9 million expected in 2011 compared with the 2006 market, products using wireless Ethernet IEEE802.11 standards are expected to account for $430.6 million, or almost 50% of the increase.
Above-average growth is also expected in shipments of the infrastructure products under study with use of the mesh networking IEEE802.15.4 standard and protocols built on it (most notably ZigBee).
These will continue to account for a larger share of shipments as low-power, low-datarate meshed sensor networks find wider acceptance.
However, despite the hype, mesh networking is not expected to account for a significant portion of the industrial wireless networking infrastructure market by 2011.
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