In the first quarter of this year may be pessimistic about the past, the wireless LAN market, total revenue dropped by about 11 percent from a year earlier, the first decline in the same period last year recording industry analyst firm Dell'Oro.

The greatest impact from the business, many of which are still reeling from last year's collapse of the economy, not the procurement budget for WLAN, according to Dell'Oro analyst Ben clearance. The bright spot is the equipment based on IEEE 802.11n draft standard, the latest and fastest Wi-Fi specifications. 802.11n gear 4 percent of income rose from the fourth quarter of last year, and for the first time, 802.11n routers, and the majority of market share. In the enterprise and consumers, have the use of 802.11n standard, even if more expensive, as addressed by the firm.

But the result is the most serious of the whole industry, because research firm began tracking it in 2002. The first time, wireless local area network unit shipments declined sequentially in all regions of the world, according to Dell. And the Revenue for the quarter declined by more than 15 percent worldwide. The most powerful of these areas, the Asia-Pacific region, where investment, promoting enterprise WLAN equipment in schools and public hot spots, according to the Cisco Systems, now the largest supplier of WLAN, the loss of market share in the enterprise market in the first quarter. It held a 60 percent share of 63.1 percent from the first quarter of last year. Integration of suppliers to obtain a number of more powerful competitors Cisco for example, HP's ProCurve networking business after leading the market access, access to the WLAN vendor Colubris Networks last year. ProCurve's won a share of 3.1 percent in the first quarter, only from July 1 percent over the same period last year. Aruba increased to a quarter shares of 8.1% over the second manufacturer Motorola as the company's market share dropped to 5.9 % points.

Despite the bad news is sales of wireless LAN network is superior to many other products, decline in revenue slower wired Ethernet switch business. Wi-Fi is intended to replace the wired LAN in some industries, such as education and health care. Equipped with 802.11n, Wi-Fi performance has been replaced by wires, but the mainstream remains to be seen whether the Office will take this path as addressed that Wireless LAN market is still very feasible, and it does have a lot of upside potential future.