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Report: Wi-Fi 7 APs 11% of shipments in Q4 2024

March 11, 2025

According to a report from Dell’Oro Group, a source for market information about the telco, security, networks and data centre industries, enterprise class Wireless LAN (WLAN) revenues continued on a recovery trajectory, growing 7 per cent on a Y/Y basis.  The adoption of Wi-Fi 7 jumped by 5 points to 11 per cent of Indoor Access Points; Huawei, HPE, and H3C gained share of  Wi-Fi 7 revenues in Q4 2024.

“The contraction in the 2024 WLAN market was the worst we have seen in over 20 years,” commented Siân Morgan, Research Director at Dell’Oro Group.  “It was even steeper than the dip during the economic crisis of 2009. However, the reverberations from the Covid-19 pandemic are dampening, and we are expecting double-digit growth in 2025.

“The refresh to Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 is driving the current growth. Huawei and H3C dominated the early Wi-Fi 7 market, but in Q4 2024 we recognised enterprise-class Wi-Fi 7 sales from over 11 vendors. We are expecting the rapid adoption of Wi-Fi 7 to continue into 2025,” added Morgan.

Additional highlights from the report:

  • CommScope, HPE and Ubiquiti recognised double-digit growth Y/Y in WLAN revenues.
  • WLAN shipments to China and Middle East and Africa contracted, dragging worldwide shipments to below the Q4 2023 level.
  • Huawei remained the forerunner in Wi-Fi 7 shipments; however, with Cisco expected to begin selling Wi-Fi 7 APs in early 2025, the position of Wi-Fi 7 leader will be in contention.
  • The US Department of Justice has filed a suit against HPE, aiming to block HPE’s intended acquisition of Juniper.  The suit’s central argument – that the WLAN market is too concentrated – is creating uncertaint

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