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CAMPBELL, CALIFORNIA, February 22, 2007—Manufacturers of service provider next gen voice and IMS equipment had a very good year, with worldwide revenue jumping 32% between 2005 and 2006 to reach $3.3 billion, says Infonetics Research in its Service Provider VoIP & IMS Equipment & Subscribers report. The overall market is up 8% for the quarter, from 3Q06 to 4Q06.
All categories of next gen voice equipment tracked by Infonetics were up year-over-year from 4Q05, and all posted strong annual gains in 2006, the report shows, with media servers and session border controllers (SBCs) showing the strongest annual growth. All categories but media servers posted sequential gains between 3Q06 and 4Q06.
Infonetics expects the service provider next gen voice and IMS equipment market to more than double between 2006 and 2010, when it will reach $6.9 billion worldwide.
“We saw a lot of healthy growth in the service provider next gen voice and IMS market in 2006 , including very active M&A and IPO vendor scenes, highlighted by the successful Acme Packet IPO in October—and BroadSoft and Veraz Networks are next,” said Infonetics Research principal analyst Stéphane Téral. ”The 5-year outlook for the overall market looks good, pointing to a sustainable investment cycle.”
Carrier VoIP/IMS Market Highlights
- A total of $25.2 billion will be spent on carrier next gen voice and IMS equipment worldwide during the 5-year period between CY06 and CY10
- The media gateway segment is up 2% between 3Q06 and 4Q06, and up 32% between CY05 and CY06
- The session border controller segment grew 9% in 4Q06 and up 66% in CY06
- The combined media gateway and softswitch market totaled $2.8 billion worldwide in CY06, with Nortel leading with 20% revenue share, followed by Cisco, who doubled their share in CY06 and moved up to 2nd position, passing Siemens
- The number of worldwide residential and SOHO VoIP subscribers will nearly quadruple between 2006 to 2010
- Revenue leaderboard:
- Cisco had a blockbuster quarter for trunk media gateways, with revenue up 73% in 4Q06
- Nortel leads in worldwide softswitch revenue
- Acme Packet leads in the fast-growing SBC segment
- RadiSys (Convedia) is the worldwide leader in media server revenue, followed closely by Cantata in CY06
- BroadSoft leads in voice application servers
Infonetics’ report tracks VoIP subscribers and carrier VoIP equipment, including high-, mid-, and low-density trunk media gateways, session border controllers, 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 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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