Cisco, Aruba Networks, Motorola, HP and Ruckus Wireless are the top 5 vendors in wireless LAN equipment market in the first quarter of 2012.
Cisco and Aruba increased their market share in wireless LAN equipment market in Q1.
Motorola is now ahead of HP.
Ruckus maintained its 5th position.
Market research firm Infonetics Research said global wireless LAN equipment revenue dipped 4 percent in Q1 from the previous quarter to $859 million due to seasonal buying trends.
Access point (AP) shipments have more than doubled over the last 5 years, and over 3/4 of all units are based on 802.11n technology.
"Sales of wireless LAN and Ethernet switching gear declined sequentially in the first quarter of 2012, mostly due to a typical seasonal buying lull, but also due to weakness in the EMEA region," said Matthias Machowinski, directing analyst for enterprise networks and video at Infonetics Research.
Despite the sequential lull, on a year-over-year basis, WLAN market growth remains strong, up in the double digits for the 10th straight quarter.
"Wireless LAN is the more exciting part of the enterprise networking market, but a number of interesting things are happening on the wired side as well, including tremendous revenue growth in the 10G Ethernet switch segment, where port shipments doubled year-over-year and revenue is set to hit the $10-billion mark next year, as well as rapid adoption of the latest technology arrival, 40G Ethernet, which has already exceeded expectations," Machowinski added.