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Exact Ventures Shows IMS Infrastructure Market Grows Nearly 40% Year-over-Year in Second QuarterSep 11, 2012 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- In recently released report, Exact Ventures announced that it found that the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) Core market grew nearly 40 percent in the second quarter of this year compared to the same quarter last year. According to a release, wireline deployments in China boosted the IMS market in the second quarter, but those deployments were not strong enough for the market to increase sequentially over the first quarter of this year, which benefited from voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) deployments in North America. Based on the strength of its domestic sales, Huawei led the IMS Core market in the second quarter, followed by Nokia Siemens, Ericsson, and Mavenir, respectively. The total NGN voice and IMS Core market grew only slightly quarter-over-quarter as seasonal strength in the wireless voice core market was barely able to offset sequential weakness in the legacy wireline NGN and IMS Core markets. The service provider session border controller (SP-SBC) market has not been immune to weakness in wireline spending as it was essentially flat both sequentially and year-over-year. "The total SBC market continues to be boosted by the enterprise SBC category (E-SBC), which continues to be fueled by strong adoption of hosted unified communications and SIP trunking services" said Greg Collins, Founder and Principal Analyst at research firm Exact Ventures. "The E-SBC market was up nearly 20 percent year-over-year in 2Q12," he added. Exact Ventures is an independent market intelligence and advisory firm, publishing quarterly market analysis and forecast reports covering the NGN Voice, IMS Core, Wireless Packet Core, Evolved Packet Core, and Diameter Signaling Controller (DSC) markets. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) |