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"Jeff Liebermann" <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote in message
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> Tony Hwang <dragon40@shaw.ca> hath wroth:
>
>>The term, rate implies it has to be based on simple math.
>
> For calendar 2005, there were approximately 140 million wi-fi chipsets
> predicted to be sold by the major manufactories. The rate of increase
> is approximately 50% per year. It's a fair assumption that about half
> or more will end up in products sold in the USA. Of these, 40 million
> chipsets were intended for wireless routers and access points world
> wide. You can scrape some interesting numbers from various market
> research pages such as:
> <http://www.instat.com/catalog/wcatalogue.asp?ID=167&year=2005#IN0501813NT>
> As I vaguely recall, the 140 million and 40 million numbers turned out
> to be rather conservative, but I'm too lazy to excavate the real
> numbers for 2006. Foundit. 200 million chipsets for 2006.
> <http://midmarket.eweek.com/article/WiFi+Chipset+Sales+Expected+To+Grow+25+in+2006/196005_1.aspx>
>
> Now for the math. About half the chipsets sold will end up in the
> USA. So, we have 100 million chipsets for 3.7 million square miles.
> That makes 27 radios for every square mile in the USA, not counting
> chipsets sold prior to 2006. If I include chipsets sold in 2005 (half
> of 160 million), I get 49 radios per square mile in the USA. No
> wonder I'm seeing interference.
>
> Another way to look at it is that are about 31.5 million seconds each
> year. 200 million chipsets worldwide each year is about 6.3 radios
> sold every second, 24 hours per day. Kinda like a deluge?
>
> Isn't math fun?
>
>
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