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CAMPBELL, CALIFORNIA, May 22, 2007—After growing 9% in the fourth quarter of 2006, the service provider next gen voice equipment market softened 8% in the first quarter of 2007, due mainly to a significant drop in media gateway sales, says Infonetics Research in its Service Provider VoIP & IMS Equipment & Subscribers report.
All categories of next gen voice equipment tracked by Infonetics are up from this time a year ago in 1Q06, the report shows, but for the quarter, media gateways, media servers, and voice application servers are all down. Bucking the trend, session border controllers (SBCs) and softswitches are both up.
“There was some softness overall in the service provider next gen voice market quarter-over-quarter, but the market is up 14% year-over-year, and the 5-year outlook is strong,” said Infonetics Research principal analyst Stéphane Téral. “The first quarter of 2007 was marked by strong RFP activity, particularly for IMS; solid softswitch deployments; and some softness in deployments of media servers, voice application servers (particularly in Asia Pacific), and media gateways (particularly in the North American cable MSO space).”
Market Highlights
- The overall service provider next gen voice and IMS equipment market is forecast to more than double between 2006 and 2010, when it will reach $6.9 billion worldwide
- Manufacturer revenue for IMS core equipment, including HSS and CSCF servers, is forecast to approach the half-billion mark by 2010
- The number of worldwide residential and SOHO VoIP subscribers will grow to about 172 million in 2010
- The combined media gateway and softswitch market totaled $717.3 million worldwide in 1Q07, with Nortel leading, followed by Siemens and then Sonus; Huawei pulled up to the #4 spot at the expense of Cisco, who dropped to 5th
Infonetics’ report tracks VoIP subscribers and carrier VoIP equipment, including high-, mid-, and low-density trunk media gateways, SBCs, media servers, class 4 and class 5 application softswitches, voice application servers, and IMS core equipment, including home subscriber servers (HSS), CSCF servers, and media resource function platforms.
The report provides analysis and rankings for Alcatel-Lucent, BroadSoft, Cantata, Thomson Cirpack, Cisco, RadiSys (Convedia), Ericsson, GENBAND, Huawei, Italtel, MetaSwitch, Comverse (NetCentrex), Nortel, Siemens, Sonus, Tekelec, UTStarcom, Veraz, Xener, and many others.
Download report highlights at www.infonetics.com. For sales, contact Larry Howard, vice president, at larry@infonetics.com or +1 (408) 583-3335.
Infonetics Research (www.infonetics.com) is an international market research and consulting firm specializing in data networking and telecom. Services include market share and forecasting, end-user survey research, service provider survey research and capex analysis.
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