The 802.11ac WiFi standard is designed to give businesses more speed and bandwidth, which is becoming increasingly important as more connected devices hit the network and users adopt more bandwidth-intensive applications. 802.11ac operates at the 5GHz level, as compared to other 802.11 standards, which run at 2.4GHz.
The need for more speed and bandwidth is becoming clearer, Spain said. Market transitions—including high-bandwidth applications, mobility, bring your own device (BYOD) and cloud computing—are putting more pressure on wireless networks. In its Visual Networking Index released in February, Cisco projected that worldwide mobile data traffic will increase thirteenfold by 2017, due in large part to the growth in the number of Internet connections. The vendor also said there will be 5.2 billion mobile users by that time, more than 10 billion mobile connections and growth in mobile video, which will represent 66 percent of worldwide mobile data traffic.
All that also is driving demand from users for more speed and bandwidth, and that demand will grow as more mobile devices that support 802.11ac hit the market, Spain said. Some businesses will wait before adopting 802.11ac, but eventually they'll make the move.
"I don't see enterprises limping along on old [802.11] a,b,g networks," he said. "They'll be upsetting their users way too much."
Spain said there are a growing number of industries that will be looking to adopt 802.11ac, including health care, service providers and education.
Other vendors also are preparing for the 802.11ac push. At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in January, Broadcom unveiled new WiFi chips, while such companies as NetGear and Buffalo Technology also talked about 802.11ac-enabled wireless products. In addition, WildPackets on April 30 announced the Omni Distributed Analysis Platform 7.5, a wireless network analysis solution designed to capture and analyze 802.11ac traffic.
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