This report forecasts that by 2023 Cloud management software will control 658 million WiFi homes, with software worth $346 million. Separately by 2023 some 364 million of those homes will also need to purchase a second or even a third Access Point to create a home WiFi network. This is likely to add several $ billions in Access Point revenues in a second wave of spending.

WiFi will move from the 50 Mbps service to all parts of the home that it approaches today, to ten times that speed in real terms. Remember we are talking about in ALL parts of each home – we expect this to reach at least a 500 Mbps signal – with some parts of the home enjoying 1 Gbps to 2 Gbps.

The outcome will lead to a savage re-instatement of operator controlled WiFi, making huge dents in the WiFi retail market, and it will shift the broadband market control to a new class of “early adopter” specialist WiFi player.

What consumers will notice is that WiFi gets more reliable as operators prepare for the 1 Gbps broadband market by improving their WiFi throughput. Many will do this as 802.11AX devices come on stream in the coming 2 to 3 years.

Already today there are 46 million homes that have some kind of managed WiFi and 16.8 million Multi-AP installs, but this will grow some 20-fold over the forecast period in one of the most rapidly consumer technology roll-outs ever.

This report will explain how this will work and shows the WiFi speeds that will come about – most of it like an iceberg – with 90% of it happening below the surface – invisible to the end user.

For more information contact

Natalia Szczepanek
Client Relations and Marketing Manager
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