New Wi-Fi Standards & AI-Powered Management Drive Growth
NEEDHAM, Mass., September 11, 2025 – The enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market grew 13.2% in the second quarter of 2025 (2Q25) compared to 2Q24 to reach $2.6 billion, building on the market’s growth momentum from the previous quarter, according to results published in the International Data Corporation ( IDC) Worldwide Quarterly WLAN Tracker.
A significant driver of growth in the enterprise WLAN market is 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.
“Growth momentum is building in the Enterprise WLAN market: 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.”
Below are results from notable enterprise WLAN vendors:
• 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 enterprise WLAN revenues increased 66.8% YoY in 2Q25 to reach $312.4 million, giving the company market share of 11.9%.
• Huawei enterprise WLAN revenues rose 5.4% YoY in 2Q25 to total $235.9 million, giving the company market share of 9.0%
• Juniper Networks’ enterprise WLAN revenues 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 IDC Worldwide Quarterly WLAN Tracker provides total market size and vendors share data in an easy-to-use Excel Pivot Table format. The geographic coverage includes nine major regions (USA, Canada, Latin America, People’s Republic of China, Asia/Pacific excluding Japan & China, Japan, Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, and Middle East and Africa) and 60 countries. The WLAN market is further segmented by product class, product type, product, standard, and location. Measurement for the WLAN market is provided in vendor revenue, value, and unit shipments.
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