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Infonetics Research Offers Excerpts from Service Provider VoIP and IMS Equipment and Subscribers Forecast Report [Health & Beauty Close - Up](Health & Beauty Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Market research firm Infonetics Research has released excerpts from its first quarter 2012 (1Q12) Service Provider VoIP and IMS Equipment and Subscribers vendor market share and forecast report. In a release, the firm noted: ANALYST NOTE "In the first quarter of 2012 we saw the largest order of IMS core equipment and application server licenses on record, secured by Alcatel-Lucent -- a clear sign that operators in North America are gearing up for voice over LTE (VoLTE) deployments. While commercial VoLTE services have yet to launch, this is a taste of what is to come as operators push forward over the next 5+ years. That said, large equipment orders will be sporadic and the IMS market will continue to be lumpy," explains Diane Myers, principal analyst for VoIP and IMS at Infonetics Research. Myers adds: "1Q12 was an unusually good quarter for the service provider VoIP and IMS equipment market not only because of the big IMS order for VoLTE, but also because of continued fixed-line network transformation, fixed-mobile convergence, and voice over broadband (VoBB) projects over IMS worldwide." SERVICE PROVIDER VOIP AND IMS MARKET HIGHLIGHTS -Thanks to exceptionally strong IMS equipment spending, the overall service provider VoIP equipment market bucked its traditional down first quarter by inching up 1 percent to $715 million over 4Q11 -Globally, the overall market is up 18 percent in 1Q12 from the year-ago first quarter -- despite continued declines in legacy trunk media gateway and softswitch sales -- driven by IMS core equipment, session border controller (SBC), and voice application server sales -In 1Q12, Alcatel-Lucent more than doubled its service provider VoIP and IMS revenue and market share, propelling them to the #1 position for worldwide market share, ahead of perennial leaders Huawei and GENBAND -North America led the quarter, with carrier VoIP and IMS spending up 18 percent quarter-over-quarter and up 76 percent year- over-year -Infonetics expects the number of mobile and fixed-line subscribers on IMS networks to grow 42 percent in 2012 to top 250 million worldwide SERVICE PROVIDER VOIP AND IMS REPORT SYNOPSIS Infonetics' quarterly Service Provider VoIP and IMS Equipment and Subscribers report provides worldwide and regional vendor market share, market size, forecasts, and analysis for multiple categories of trunk media gateways, session border controllers, media servers, Class 4 and Class 5 softswitches, voice application servers, IMS core equipment (HSS, BGCF, MGCF, CSCF servers), IMS application servers, and VoIP and IMS subscribers. The report provides a look at the trends shaping the market as it shifts from next-gen network VoIP to IMS, including an IMS Deployment Tracker by service provider, country, vendor and number of IMS subscribers. Vendors tracked: Acme Packet, Alcatel-Lucent, AudioCodes, BroadSoft, Dialogic, Ericsson, GENBAND, Huawei, Italtel, Mavenir, MetaSwitch, NEC, Nokia Siemens Networks, RadiSys, Sonus, Technicolor, Tekelec, Xener, ZTE, and others. CLIENT CONFERENCE CALL Diane Myers' client conference call with highlights from this report is June 11, 11 a.m. Eastern. RELATED RESEARCH -Latest Infonetics VoIP and IMS research newsletter: http:// bit.ly/KFKHGX -Comcast, Verizon top Infonetics Business VoIP Services Scorecard for North America -VoIP services market growing strong as businesses seek flexibility, easier management -Mobile broadband, smartphones, LTE drive Diameter signaling controllers to 106 percent CAGR -15 million Rich Communication Suite (RCS) subscribers by 2013 -Operators name Acme Packet top SBC vendor; SIP trunking, interconnection driving SBCs Infonetics Research is an international market research and consulting firm serving the communications industry. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) (c) 2012 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |