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Report Examines IMS Equipment Market and Carrier VoIP

March 05, 2010

By Susan J. Campbell, TMCnet Contributing Editor

Infonetics Research, a market research firm focused on the communications industry, has released its fourth quarter (4Q09) Service Provider VoIP Equipment and Subscribers and IMS Equipment and Subscribers market share and forecast reports.

'The worldwide carrier voice over IP equipment market closed the 2009 calendar year down 28 percent, as expected, ending with its third consecutive quarter of stable revenue in the fourth quarter, led by very strong session border controller sales,” said Diane Myers, directing analyst for service provider VoIP and IMS at Infonetics Research (News - Alert), in a company statement.

“Meanwhile, the IMS equipment market ended on a high note with 2009 worldwide revenue up 142 percent over 2008. The shining star in 4Q09 for IMS sales included deployments for mobile networks, particularly purchases for Rich Communication Suite, video, LTE (News - Alert) trials and enhanced mobile IM and presence services.”

Myers also noted that the IMS market is likely to continue to be lumpy on a quarterly basis, but positive momentum is expected from new deployments from North American cable operators. Strong annual growth for at least five years can be expected from Class 5 replacement projects in EMEA and VoLTE.

The report offers worldwide and regional market size, select market share, forecasts through 2014 and analysis of mobile and fixed-line IMS subscribers. In addition, it tracks revenue, licenses, sessions and/or DS0s for IMS voice and presence application servers and IMS core equipment.

The service provider VoIP report also provides worldwide and regional market share, market size and forecasts through 2014, in addition to analysis for VoIP subscribers and media processing and call control carrier VoIP equipment.

Other highlights from the IMS Market Report note that after a down 3Q09, the worldwide IMS equipment market posted its strongest quarter to date with a jump of 92 percent in 4Q09. Also, worldwide IP Multimedia Subsystem (News - Alert) “IMS” equipment vendor revenue reached $426 million in 2009 and is expected to grow to $1.44 billion in 2014.

Susan J. Campbell is a contributing editor for TMCnet and has also written for eastbiz.com. To read more of Susan’s articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Stefania Viscusi