The Wi-Fi Market
In 2017, the worldwide WLAN market was estimated to be $5.9 billion per year and is projected to be as much as $15 billion per year in 2022. About half of that was attributed to growth in the enterprise space, as fewer and fewer office spaces even bother installing Ethernet ports for users because most are connecting to the network over wireless most, if not all, of the time. However, this annual spending on WLAN equipment is only part of the story. As noted, Wi-Fi technology has changed the way many organizations do business. Indeed, it has created whole new business models.
Coffee shops, bookstores, and cafés have embraced wireless connectivity in two waves. The first wave involved providing wireless access to a private LAN ...
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