According to Market research firm Infonetics Research , MetaSwitch (News - Alert) was among a handful of Voice over IP equipment vendors that recorded healthy revenue increases in Q209.

 

The second quarter report, titled “Service Provider VoIP Equipment and Subscribers”, also suggested the VoIP equipment space is expected to evolve in different directions for the remainder of 2009 with dynamic growth coming in certain sectors of the diverse space.

 

"The product and competitive landscape of the service provider VoIP equipment market is reshaping in 2009, as stronger vendors weather the storm and, in some segments, even thrive,” said Diane Myers, Infonetics Research's (News - Alert) directing analyst for service provider VoIP and IMS.

 

Overall, the report shows, worldwide service provider VoIP equipment revenues totaled $598 million in Q209, up 0.8 percent from the previous quarter. In addition, the voice application server segment saw a 31 percent sequential increase in worldwide revenue on the back of residential VoIP growth.

 

In recent years, MetaSwitch has strengthened its market position by building a roster of smaller carriers such as CLECs, RLECs, IOCs ­– markets often neglected by big carriers.

 

And that has translated into growth in many underserved areas.

 

After recently extending its footprint in the carrier IP communications space by adding more than 20 new regional operators to its customer base, MetaSwitch jumped past the 200 mark of incumbent service providers using its services.

 

However, notes Myers, not all vendors are performing as well as the overall market is still down 32 percent from a year ago. “It stabilized in the second quarter, with flat quarter-over-quarter revenue. The healthiest segments were voice application servers, high and low density media gateways, and Class 5 softswitches. EMEA and North America had strong growth," said Myers.

 

In fact, the EMEA market saw the most promise with trunk media gateway a “sweet spot” for the quarter, posting 41 percent sequential gains in Q209. At the same time North American service providers and conferencing service providers were driving media server growth – one of the few bright spots that continued to experience year-over-year revenue growth.

 

The VoIP report provides worldwide and regional market share, market size, forecasts, and analysis for VoIP subscribers and media processing and call control carrier VoIP equipment, including high-, mid-, and low-density trunk media gateways, SBCs, media servers, softswitches, and voice application servers.