A new International Data Corporation (IDC) InfoBrief, sponsored by Mitek, Biometrics Key to Customer Satisfaction and Combating AI-Generated Fraud*, has been released.

The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments experienced year-over-year growth of 12.5% in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13). According to the results published in the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly WLAN Tracker, the enterprise segment continued to grow at a healthy rate of 19.3% over the same period last year.

The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) reached $5.28 billion in the first quarter of 2013, representing year-over-year growth of 2.1%. On a sequential basis the seasonally weaker 1Q13 declined 7.6% over 4Q12.