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CAMPBELL, CALIFORNIA, October 8, 2007—After dropping 6% in 1Q07, the service provider next gen voice equipment market picked up 8% in 2Q07 to reach $909.1 million, says Infonetics Research in its Service Provider VoIP and IMS Equipment and Subscribers report.
All categories of next gen voice equipment except softswitches are up in 2Q07 from 1Q07, the report shows, with the strongest gains posted by the voice application server, media gateway, and session border controller (SBC) segments.
“The second quarter was marked by robust media gateway, voice application server, and SBC deployments, as well as some softness in softswitch deployments. There was also continued softness in the Asia Pacific media server market, which led to a somewhat disappointing quarter for some players, but it was a strong quarter overall, and the 5-year outlook looks good as demand for VoIP networking gears remains unabated,” said Infonetics Research principal analyst Stéphane Téral.
Other report 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 $6.8 billion worldwide
- The number of worldwide residential and SOHO VoIP subscribers will grow to about 172 million in 2010
- The combined voice application server market, which jumped 32% in 2Q07, is led by BroadSoft, followed by IP Unity Glenayre and Ubiquity (now Avaya)
- The worldwide trunk media gateway and softswitch market totaled $773.4 million worldwide in 2Q07, with Nortel leading, followed by Nokia Siemens
- Cisco jumps to #3 in the trunk media gateway/softswitch segment, displacing Sonus, fueled by strong media gateway deployments
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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