Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: In-Stat
Published: March 2003
Product Code: R97-1197Description With less than 30 thousand Voice over 802.11b handsets shipping out in 2002, the Voice over Wireless LAN (VoWLAN) market is still an extremely small, immature market, albeit one with a significantly growing amount of interest and potential. On the one hand, the old-school hard handset market is driving market growth, with handset interest coming from enterprise vertical markets that already have WLAN installed. Top verticals remain healthcare, education and retail, namely those same verticals which have been driving large-scale enterprise WLAN roll-outs over the last few years. SpectraLink and Symbol dominate this handset market.
On the other hand, however, is the "new" VoWLAN market. First, softphones that enable PDAs and laptops to function as telephones bring a new dimension to the WLAN market, with companies such as TeleSym, Avaya and Vedic Technologies making these applications a reality in the business environment. Secondly, the vision of a combination Wi-Fi, and 2.5 or 3G, mobile phone is the ultimate vision for the business environment, where this mobile phone seamlessly switches between cellular and 802.11, even in the middle of a call. Motorola, Proxim and Avaya announced a partnership in January 2003 to develop the handsets and necessary infrastructure required to make this vision a reality.Table of Contents |
Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Methodology
- The Wireless LAN
(WLAN) Market
- WLAN Market
Overview
- What is a Typical
WLAN Architecture?
- WLAN Technologies
Overview
- IEEE 802.11
- 802.11b
- 802.11g
- 802.11a
- 802.11e
- 802.11i
- 802.11f
- 802.11h
- HiperLAN1
- HiperLAN2
- HomeRF
- LAN Telephony Market
- Why Buy LAN
Telephony?
- What is LAN
Telephony?
- The Components
- IP PBX
- Ethernet
- Nodes
- Packet
Handsets
- Two Types of
LAN Telephony
- Differences
between IP PBX and Converged PBX:
- VoWLAN Product
Description
- The Wireless
Handset
- VoWLAN Architecture
Limitations
- Call Capacity
Per Access Point
- Security
- VoWLAN Handset
Vendors: SpectraLink & Symbol
- VoWLAN New
Models
- Avaya,
Motorola, and Proxim
- Telesym
- Vedic Technologies
- Cisco
- "AP/Switch"
Providers
- VoWLAN Business
Models
- Enterprise
Wireless Voice Markets
- Market Drivers
- Market Shares
- Market Forecast
- Traditional
Wireless Enterprise Market
- Wireless LAN
Base Stations
- Aggregate Forecast
- Dual Wi-Fi/Cellular
Handset Forecast
- Conclusion
List of Tables
- Table 1. 802.11
Technologies Overview
- Table 2. IEEE 802.11
Task Groups
- Table 3. WLAN Standards
Matrix
- Table 4. Calls
per AP: a Conservative Estimate of the Number of Simultaneous Calls
per AP at an Average Data Rate of 2 Mbps
- Table 5. U.S. Traditional
Enterprise Wireless Voice Forecasts in thousands of stations
- Table 6. Forecast
of Potential VoWLAN Handsets in Thousands, as compared to Wi-Fi APs
- Table 7. VoWLAN
U.S. Handset and End-User Revenue Forecast in Thousands US$
- Table 8. Wi-Fi
-Enabled Cellular Handsets
List of Figures
- Figure 1. Typical
WLAN Configuration
- Figure 2. LAN Telephony
Basic Diagram
- Figure 3. 3Com
NBX Business Telephone
- Figure 4. SpectraLink
Wireless Handset
- Figure 5. VoWLAN
Call Path Illustrated
- Figure 6. Avaya,
Motorola, and Proxim: Converged Wireless Device Network
- Figure 7. SymPhone
Shown Running on an iPAQ Pocket PC
- Figure 8. SymPhone
System Network Diagram
- Figure 9. Vedic
Technologies' VoIP Solution Architecture
- Figure 10. Close-Up
of Vocera's Wireless Badge
- Figure 11. Vocera's
Architecture
- Figure 12. VoWLAN
Handset Unit Market Shares
- Figure 13. U.S.
Traditional Enterprise Wireless Voice Forecast in Thousands of Stations
- Figure 14. VoWLAN
Potential Market
- Figure 15. VoWLAN
U.S. End-User Revenues in Thousands US$
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