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Nortel (News - Alert)'s Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions division announced its leading position in the global Carrier VoIP and Softswitch market with respect to revenues in Carrier VoIP for the fourth quarter of 2009. The data was supplied by Infonetics Research and Dell' (News - Alert)Oro Group.

Nortel CVAS also announced that it has been selected for TMC's Unified Communications Magazine 2009 Product of the Year Awards.

'Our recent research concluded that the carrier VoIP equipment market was up 2.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009 and is expected to grow modestly over the next three years,' said Diane Myers, directing analyst, service provider VoIP and IMS for Infonetics Research (News - Alert). 'Nortel CVAS has been a consistent leader in the Carrier VoIP market due to the company's foundation of voice expertise and commitment to next-generation VoIP solutions.'

The Infonetics Research's report, titled 'Service Provider VoIP Equipment and Subscribers Market Share, Size, and Forecasts - 4Q09' reveals that Nortel (News - Alert) CVAS was able to increase its share in every sector of the VoIP market in 2009. Also the company was able to increase its global softswitch share by 4 points to 28 points and over 8 points share in the North American softswitch market, reaching 70 percent revenue share, during the fourth quarter of 2009, pointed out Infonetics analysts.

Nortel CVAS' media gateway revenue share also increased by 1.2 points compared to 2008 with a 3 points growth in its global Voice Application Server revenue share to 13.7, according to Infonetics.

Similarly the Dell'Oro Group's report titled, 'Carrier IP Telephony Report, 4Q09' ranked Nortel CVAS as the number 1 supplier in the global Carrier VoIP and softswitch markets for the fourth quarter of 2009 and for the entire year.

'Growing market share in every segment of the VoIP space and being named as the #1 provider in the global Carrier VoIP and Softswitch markets for the past eight years is a powerful customer validation for Nortel CVAS,' said Samih Elhage, president, CVAS, Nortel. 'Over the past year, we generated significant momentum in VoIP solution sales and technology innovation which led to securing business with more than 40 new Carrier VoIP customers, over 10 of which are Tier 1 operators.'

Company sources confirmed that Nortel CVAS' AdaptiveApplication Engine has been shipped to more than11 million customers which indicate the company's popularity in the Voice Application Server market. This tremendous growth is attributed to service provider's growing demand for Fixed-Mobile Convergence, Adaptive Unified Communications (News - Alert)and Web IP applications.

Shamila Janakiraman is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Shamila's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Marisa Torrieri