Q2 WLAN Market Up 13.2%

The Q2 enterprise WLAN market grew 13.2% YoY to reach $2.6 billion, says  IDC.

A significant driver of growth was the adoption of Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 which 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.

In the Americas, the enterprise WLAN market increased 17.0% YoY in 2Q25, driven by growth of 18.4% in the US.

In EMEA the market grew 14.7% YoY.

In Asia/Pac revenues grew 4.6% YoY

In China, revenues 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 IDC’s Brandon Butler, “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.”

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.