Wireless LAN in the Enterprise: "No Brainer" or Never?

Networld+Interop 2004, Las Vegas: IDC Breakfast Briefing

Wireless networking taking the home by storm and showing up in conference rooms everywhere, making the prospect of a wireless enterprise appear closer than ever. However, the market for large scale enterprise WLAN deployments has not yet taken off. In this discussion Abner Germanow discusses the prospects for WLAN in the enterprise, including research on WLAN purchasing trends, and leading infrastructure vendors. This briefing examines the good new and bad news influencing the deployment of WLAN technologies in the enterprise:

The WLAN market is growing and products are maturing quickly. Despite this growth, the market is still young and immature. Security, articulation of business cases, and a general lack of knowledge around how and why the enterprise will adopt wireless technologies threatens to inhibit growth of the technology in the enterprise.