Frost & Sullivan has released a new study, “IMS Network Test & Measurement Market for Voice Testing and Monitoring Applications,” which identifies test solutions provider Empirix (
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In the study, Frost & Sullivan defines the major application segments within the IMS testing and monitoring market: voice, video and data. The firm –and in fact a majority of experts in IP communications – believes voice is the most critical step towards mass IMS deployment.
“Voice is the foundation and essential application for IMS networks. Service providers and NEMs are first proving they can provide high-quality voice services on their new IMS networks before proceeding to more advanced applications,” notes Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Olga Yashkova in the report.
The report identifies Empirix as the market share leader, in terms of revenue, for IMS voice testing and monitoring, with an estimated 25.7 percent share of the overall market for 2006. Empirix also placed first in the IMS voice testing segment.
Through its research, Frost & Sullivan predicts the IMS voice testing and monitoring market, currently at about $155.5 million, will nearly double to $297.6 million by 2008.
“If IMS was just a buzzword in 2005, in 2006 it has become a reality,” Yashkova was quoted as saying in a
press release. “Interest in IMS has grown tremendously due to the wide range of benefits and value-added features it has to offer. Not surprisingly, this has created a major need for test and monitoring equipment to support the technology as it is developed and deployed. Empirix, with its renowned Hammer product line and long history of success in the VoIP test and measurement space, is very well positioned in the IMS market with commanding market share.”
“We knew instinctively that we were gaining momentum in the IMS space, and we’re very pleased that our market share has been validated by Frost & Sullivan,” said Duane Sword, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Empirix. “We’re also glad that the firm confirmed the importance of the voice segment, which we have seen emerge as the first IMS application sector to become a reality and drive significant revenue for our customers.”
The study will be published later this month. To register for an executive summary of the report, visit
http://www.empirix.com/ims_report.
Empirix
made news last month when it introduced Hammer Service Assurance for Speech, a managed testing service that evaluates the performance of speech applications used by contact centers. The new service provides performance data, including application availability, speech recognition rates and transaction length. It also identifies areas for improvement and tests voice quality to establish whether speech recognition rates are affected by poor quality.
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also announced last month that it had reached a key milestone - it had shipped four million voice test ports to its broad customer base of service providers, NEMs and enterprise contact centers. The four million test ports span the company's offerings across TDM and VoIP, as well as NGN and IMS architectures. Customers include the world’s leading NEMs such as Juniper Networks (
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The Top 10 NEMs and virtually all major service providers use Empirix’s Hammer solutions to ensure the performance of their devices, networks and services. Over the years, Empirix has helped its customers successfully transition through several large communication technology waves, including TDM, IVR, CTI, VoIP, NGN and now IMS.
For more information, visit
www.empirix.com.
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Patrick Barnard is Associate Editor for TMCnet and a columnist covering the telecom industry. To see more of his articles, please visit Patrick Barnard’s columnist page.
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