Carrier VoIP Equipment Market Settles Down in Q209
August 25, 2009
By Tim Gray, TMCnet Web Editor
According to Market research firm Infonetics Research , the Voice over IP equipment, or VoIP, space is expected to evolve in different directions for the remainder of 2009 with dynamic growth expected in certain sectors of the diverse space.
The second quarter report, titled “Service Provider VoIP Equipment and Subscribers”, claims worldwide service provider VoIP equipment revenues totaled $598 million in Q209, up 0.8 percent over the previous quarter.
"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.
However, notes Myers, 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 gains in Q209 over the previous quarter. 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.
In addition, the voice application server segment saw 31 percent sequential increase in worldwide revenue on the back of residential VoIP 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.
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Tim Gray is a Web Editor for TMCnet, covering news in the IP communications, call center and customer relationship management industries. To read more of Tim’s articles, please visit his columnist page.
Edited by Tim Gray