Perspectives
Wi-Fi has reached ubiquitous levels in devices such as laptops and netbooks, is quickly becoming ubiquitous is smartphones, and continues to become increasingly significant in portable and line-powered consumer electronics. Wi-Fi's importance in devices is doubling as location-aware applications make use of Wi-Fi as an alternative positioning technology.
As the penetration of WWAN into a wider array of devices beyond the handset continues, Wi-Fi is not becoming redundant. Rather, Wi-Fi is becoming critical, with an increasing number of carriers embracing it as a way to offload data traffic to a wired network in order to maximize capacity on the WWAN network. The Wi-Fi Research Service includes market share, market sizing, and forecasts for Wi-Fi chipsets and Wi-Fi networking equipment across both consumer and enterprise spaces.