Wireless Mesh Node Market On-Track to Surpass $90 Million in 2006, According to Dell’Oro Group

Tropos Networks Leads Pack

Redwood City, Calif. – November 16, 2006 – A recently published report from Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, reveals that shipments of wireless mesh nodes used predominantly to develop metropolitan Wi-Fi networks are on track to generate revenues of over $90 million this year.

“In the third quarter, Tropos led the wireless mesh node market with 23 percent,” said Elmer Choy, Analyst of Wireless LAN Research at Dell’Oro Group. “Deployments in North America are starting to accelerate as some vendors concentrate their efforts on smaller cities, where the local governments can move more quickly than large metropolitan bureaucracies, and where there may be less competition from incumbent Internet service providers,” added Choy.

The report also shows strong double-digit growth in the total wireless LAN market with the bulk of the revenue increase coming from the SOHO (small office, home office) market, which for the first time, surpassed $500 million in quarterly revenues. Most SOHO wireless LAN vendors make devices that combine wireless routers with broadband modems, but Siemens and Thomson benefited the most this quarter, as they sell these products to service providers. Service providers are increasingly supplying these devices to broadband subscribers for their home networks.

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The Dell’Oro Group Quarterly Wireless LAN report offers complete, in-depth coverage of the Wireless LAN service provider, enterprise, SOHO, and client devices markets with tables containing manufacturers' revenue, average selling prices, and unit shipments by the following wireless standards:  802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11a/g and 802.11n.  To purchase this report, please contact Karen Yang, call +1.650.622.9400 x222 or email Karen@DellOro.com.

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