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Growth Ahead for VoIP Equipment Market: Infonetics
December 15, 2009
By Stefania Viscusi, Assignment Desk Editor
According to the latest research report from Campbell, Calif.–based Infonetics Research (News - Alert), revenues for the core IMS equipment market declined 39 percent in 3Q09.
Despite this drop, however, the market research firm is predicting the VoIP equipment market will continue to hold steady with healthy growth in the near future as a result of more VoIP services being adopted and service providers migrating VoIP services to IMS networks.
According to Diane Myers, directing analyst for service provider VoIP and IMS at Infonetics Research, “This stability is a very good sign for the industry, which has seen a tumultuous year. We are still expecting about a 30 percent drop in worldwide revenue for the overall 2009 year compared to 2008,' Myers said.
Infonetics also reported that worldwide session border controller or “SBC” revenues increased half a percent from 2Q09 to 3Q09 and hit $38.7 million. Also, for the second quarter in a row, worldwide revenues for trunk media gateways increased by 14 percent.
'Despite the drop, it was a very solid quarter for IMS equipment, which is tracking right in line with subscriber growth and new deployments,” Myers said.
We expect the worldwide IMS equipment market to more than double in 2009, and to grow to $1.6 billion by 2013.'
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Stefania Viscusi is an assignment editor for TMCnet, covering voice and Voice over IP technologies. She also oversees production of TMCnet's e-Newsletters in the areas of Internet telephony and speech technology. To read more of Stefania's articles, please visit her columnist page.
Edited by Stefania Viscusi
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