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Communications News, March, 2006
The adoption of voice-over-wireless LAN solutions is expected to triple in the next two years, from 10% now to 31% in 2007, driven by the growing availability of wireless voice-over-IP (VoIP) handsets and voice-enabling wireless infrastructure. The study, conducted by Infonetics Research, involves 240 organizations that currently are or expect to be using WLANs this year, as well as surveys of 450 organizations for WLAN adoption rates.
"While increasing employee mobility and productivity are currently the top reasons for deploying WLANs, voice over WLAN is a growing driver and is potentially disruptive," says Infonetics Research analyst Richard Webb. "The traditional model of time- and distance-based pricing for voice calls is being eroded by VoIP, and as VoIP goes wireless, it presents an opportunity for enterprise users and a challenge for operators."
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Highlights of the study:
* 57% of small, 62% of medium and 72% of large organizations in North America will use WLANs by 2009.
* The leading barriers to WLAN adoption are security and privacy.
* Intranet or VPN access and Internet access for guests top the list of applications implemented over WLANs.
* 42% of respondents have a wireless policy that defines how employees can use the WLAN and other wireless technologies.
* 44% deploy and manage their access points separately, without the use of WLAN switches; this approach is expected to decline by 2007, as centralized control architectures gain traction and the number of WLAN switch ports deployed grows significantly
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