Eighty-six percent of networking executives believe that advanced wireless will transform their organization within three years, and 79% say the same about their industry.

Seventy-six percent of executives believe 5G will be a "critical" networking technology for their company in three years, and 70% feel the same way about Wi-Fi 6.

On average organizations expect to spend US$115.7 million on wireless technologies over the next three years.

Eighty-seven percent believe advanced wireless technologies can create a significant competitive advantage for their company.

Fifty-six percent of executives rated security as the biggest challenge in adopting advanced wireless.

On average organizations expect to spend US$115.7 million on wireless technologies over the next three years.

Fifty-seven percent of respondents are currently in the process of adopting 5G and/or Wi-Fi 6 (including planning, testing, and piloting); another 37% plan to adopt these technologies within the next year.

More than 9 in 10 executives surveyed regard advanced wireless technologies as "very" or "critically" important to their business success today.

4G/LTE and current (or previous) versions of Wi-Fi are the most valued wireless technologies; however, executives believe that 5G (76%) and Wi-Fi 6 (70%) will be within the top-three critical wireless technologies three years from now.

While more than 8 in 10 of networking executives surveyed are "satisfied" or "extremely satisfied" with the performance characteristics of their current wireless networks, 57% believe their company's current networking infrastructure prevents them from addressing the innovative use cases they would like to target.

Eighty-seven believe their company can create a significant competitive advantage by leveraging advanced wireless technologies.

More than 8 in 10 respondents cited advanced wireless connectivity as "very" or "extremely important" to their organization's ability to take full advantage of AI, edge computing, IoT, cloud and big data analytics.

A vast majority of the surveyed enterprises are targeting a blend of scenarios with respect to adoption of wireless networks — involving both indoor and outdoor usage; and stationary and mobile devices.

The top three benefits adopters aim to achieve with their shift to advanced wireless networking are improving efficiency, improving security and taking advantage of new technologies; such as edge computing, big data analytics and AI.

Respondents rank data speed (63%), reliability and resilience (62%) and security of networks and data (61%) as the most important factors of success with advanced wireless.

5G and Wi-Fi 6 are being adopted in parallel: 76% of executives believe 5G will be a "critical" networking technology for their company in three years, and 70% feel the same way about Wi-Fi 6. In fact, 62% plan to adopt both technologies within the next year; and 93% plan to co-adopt them within the next three years.

Fifty-six percent of executives rated concerns around security the highest when it comes to challenges in adopting advanced wireless.

Eight in 10 enterprises expect to primarily deploy and manage their wireless networking applications and services on public or private clouds in the coming years.

Of the 36% of adopters that expect to primarily use private clouds to deploy and manage their wireless networking applications and services, 21% trust their own enterprises the most to manage the private cloud data, while 60% trust traditional cloud providers the most.