Segment Highlights

The overall enterprise networking market, comprising both LAN and WLAN segments, saw Cisco, HPE and Juniper stay as the leading vendors. These top three players accounted for 84 percent share of a market that clocked Rs 6,943 crore in revenues during FY 2015-16.

The government’s Smart Cities program is emerging a longterm growth driver for the networking market. An initial impetus would come from deployment of application areas ranging from lighting, surveillance and traffic management to water management and conservation.

CommScope’s global acquisition of TE Connectivity’s telecom, enterprise and wireless business helped consolidate the India market, where TE had been a leader for the past several years. CommScope commanded 44 percent share of the market while the top three players accounted for 78 percent of the segment revenues during the fiscal 2016.

While IP and VoIP technologies continue to see standalone deployments in enterprises, and more so in the SMBs, a longterm shift is clearly taking place in favor of more integrated offerings like unified communications and collaboration.

Enterprise mobility continues to be a key adoption trend, which is being further fueled by a growing presence of cloud technologies and services. The rapid rise in the adoption of smartphones, coupled with the proliferation of 3G and 4G cellular networks, is also strengthening the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon.

Within the premise, Wi-Fi is becoming a mainstream access network, and the trend is likely to gain more ground as the 802.11ac standard gradually replaces the older Wi-Fi gears in the enterprise networks.