Broadband networks for the home are fueling the growth of sales of wireless devices, and will continue to do so for the next five years. Research from the Boston-based IT consultancy, Strategy Analytics, indicates that homeowners worldwide are going to purchase nearly 950 million wireless home devices, including game consoles, wireless MP3 players and connected TVs by 2012. The transition from current WiFi technologies to next-generation MIMO and 802.11n is going to increase the penetration of the devices.
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Wireless Broadband for the Home Fueling Gaming, MP3 Sales
Posted by: Gene J. Koprowski August 1, 2006 05:00 AMBroadband networks for the home are fueling the growth of sales of wireless devices, and will continue to do so for the next five years. Research from the Boston-based IT consultancy, Strategy Analytics, indicates that homeowners worldwide are going to purchase nearly 950 million wireless home devices, including game consoles, wireless MP3 players and connected TVs by 2012. The transition from current WiFi technologies to next-generation MIMO and 802.11n is going to increase the penetration of the devices.