This IDC study provides Western European WLAN equipment shipment and revenue data for 1H08 and comparisons with 1H07 and 2H07. Shipment and revenue shares are provided for network interface cards (NICs) and infrastructure by country and vendor for 2007. Shipment and revenue data for embedded solutions is not included in this study. Only IEEE 802.11-related products are covered in IDC's definition of WLAN. Included in the pivot table are the figures for the Western European market size and market shares of WLAN vendors active in the market

A geographical split is included for Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K.

"WLAN solutions should be considered as an integral part of the network architecture in order to move to a fully converged unified communications environment, and vendors need to carefully consider how they market their WLAN solutions to their customers in order to be successful in the future," said Evelien Wiggers, research manager, European Enterprise Networks IDC.