IDC: Enterprise WLAN Market Posts Solid Growth

Building on the market’s growth momentum from the previous quarter, the enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market grew 13.2% year-over-year during Q25, reaching $2.6 billion, according to IDC.

The recent IDC Tracker report identifies the primary driver as the adoption of new Wi-Fi standards. Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 enable up to a 3X increase in available bandwidth for Wi-Fi in the 6 GHz band, in certain geographies. Wi-Fi 7 made up 21.2% of market revenues in the dependent access point segment in 2Q25, compared to making up 11.8% of the segment’s revenues a quarter earlier. Meanwhile, Wi-Fi 6E made up 26.8% of the dependent AP segment’s revenue, with Wi-Fi 6 making up the balance.

From a geographical perspective, in the Americas, the enterprise WLAN market increased 17.0% year-over-year (YoY) in 2Q25, driven by growth of 18.4% in the United States. In the Europe, Middle East & Africa region, the market grew 14.7% YoY, while in the Asia Pacific region, revenues grew 4.6% YoY, as market revenues in the People’s Republic of China declined 6.6% YoY.

“From the first to the second quarter of 2025, the market increased 15.1%, and the 2Q25 annualized growth of 13.2% in 2Q25 follows growth of 10.6% YoY in the previous quarter (1Q25),” notes Brandon Butler, senior research manager, Enterprise Networks, IDC. “Investments by enterprises in WLAN are driven by new standards like Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 6E expanding the use cases for Wi-Fi, and AI-powered networking powering innovative new management capabilities.”

Among the vendor highlights, Cisco’s enterprise WLAN revenues rose 8.0% YoY in 2Q25 to reach $996.1 million, giving the company market share of 37.8% in the quarter. HPE Aruba Networking revenues grew 9.3% YoY in 2Q25 to reach $376.3 million, giving the company market share of 14.3%. Ubiquiti increased 66.8% YoY in 2Q25 to reach $312.4 million, giving the company market share of 11.9%. Huawei rose 5.4% YoY in 2Q25 to total $235.9 million, giving the company market share of 9.0%. Juniper increased 20.4% YoY in 2Q25 to total $141.9 million, giving the company market share of 5.4%. Note that in July 2025, HPE closed its acquisition of Juniper Networks.

The study was based on market size, vendor share, and forecasts for hundreds of technology markets from more than 100 countries around the globe.

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