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HP Flexes Its Wireless Wares: Page 2 of 2

"While in 2010 we saw the proliferation of single-radio 802.11n APs at the low end of the market, these new APs will help rollout of wireless at the high end of the market, further solidifying Wi-Fi as a critical network infrastructure in the enterprise."

Rohit adds that the announcement both improves HP's market opportunity as well as the potential target market since it expands the high-end segment of enterprise WLANs, the segment that requires a high-capacity, multimedia-capable, resilient wireless architecture.

"2011 will be an interesting year for enterprise networking, wireless included. Cisco still remains a strong leader by far, and will refocus its efforts to ensure it does not lose that leadership. HP, with its combined networking portfolio with 3Com, is now stronger than in the past. The competitive landscape will only get more competitive, from the data center to the network edge, with wired and wireless."

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