Motorola study reveals enterprise WLANs as a must-have to increase productivity

摘要

The Enterprise Mobility business of Motorola Inc. announced its research results from an enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) study analyzing the deployments and requirements of North American enterprise WLAN decision-makers. More than half of all the survey respondents said they have either fully or partially deployed an enterprise WLAN, with an additional 31 percent trialing or planning to deploy WLANs by 2010. Nearly 20 percent of the polled enterprises said that their IT spending on WLAN technologies will be 5 percent higher than last year's budgeted expenditure. Despite the current soft economic conditions worldwide, enterprises are still prioritizing enterprise WLAN deployments and upgrades. Only 4 percent of survey respondents said they would reduce spending on WLAN technologies this year. "Enterprises are realizing the strategic need to invest in wireless infrastructures rather than continuing to invest in both wired and wireless," said Sujai Hajela, vice president and general manager of Enterprise WLAN, Motorola Enterprise Mobility business. "802.1 In-based wireless networks are more secure, more reliable, faster and cheaper than the traditional wired network infrastructure enterprises use today. The technology is ready for the wireless edge to evolve to the completely wireless enterprise."