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According to Coherent Market Insights, Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) Wi-Fi segment witnessed
growth of close to 20% in the first quarter of 2016, with enterprise as the major end use industry.
Moreover, according to our research experts, Asia Pacific IT infrastructure investments are
expected to witness growth at over 4% year-on-year through the forecast period. This will help
the industry participants in the region gain higher profit margins in the region
Favorable government initiatives to boost economic development in India will offer potential
growth prospects
China, India, Indonesia, Thailand are among the major economies that will positively influence
the future industry growth in Asia Pacific. Government initiatives such as Digital India
Programme, Bharat Net, National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN), are expected to present India
as the most potential economy in the region. Similar initiatives are expected to be witnessed
across other emerging economies to aid future economic growth, which will provide significant
boost to the overall enterprise network LAN equipment market.
Some of the chief market participants include Alcatel-Lucent, Brocade, Avaya, Cisco, Aruba-HPE,
Juniper, Ruckus, Aerohive, Juniper and NEC. Industry is majorly characterized by acquisition of
SMEs by major industry players to enhance their portfolio or security offered in the solutions.
For instance, in March 2015, HPE acquired Aruba to enhance its switches and routers portfolio
and has plans to continue its acquisition strategy. Cisco has also adopted similar strategy and
has acquired ThreatGRID, OpenDNS, SourceFire, and Lancope which were acquisitions were
aimed to enhance cyber security.