[May 23, 2013] Infonetics Releases Report Excerpts: Patchy Year Ahead for VoIP; Carrier SBCs Hit All-Time High Tweet May 23, 2013 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Market research firm Infonetics Research on May 20 released vendor market share and forecast excerpts from its 1st quarter 2013 (1Q13) Service Provider VoIP and IMS Equipment and Subscribers report. According to a release, the full report will be published May 30. "Service provider session border controllers (SBCs) had a stellar first quarter, passing the $100-million mark to hit an all-time high for a single quarter. Operators are working on complex network migration and voice-over-LTE deployment plans, with sales cycles happening at different times for different elements, and SBCs benefitted from this trend in the first quarter," explains Diane Myers, principal analyst for VoIP, UC, and IMS at Infonetics Research. Myers adds: "That said, the overall global next-gen voice equipment market is down in 1Q13, coming off a solid 2012, and we expect a patchy year ahead while we wait for VoLTE networks in North America to kick in. Network transformation and VoLTE projects are ongoing of course, but this year's equipment orders are not likely to match the magnitude of last year's." CARRIER VOIP/IMS MARKET HIGHLIGHTS -The total global carrier voice over IP (VoIP) and IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) equipment market fell 11 percent in 1Q13 from 4Q12, to $712 million, due to a drop in sales of legacy equipment and voice application servers -For the 1st time, sales of IMS equipment exceeded those of next-generation voice equipment -The top 3 VoIP and IMS market share leaders in 1Q13 are Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent, and GENBAND - all holding steady from the previous quarter -Alcatel-Lucent had a particularly strong quarter; other vendors posting solid revenue growth in 1Q13 include Acme Packet, AudioCodes, Ericsson, Metaswitch and ZTE -North America is the only region to post quarter-over-quarter growth in the market, up 26 percent in 1Q13, benefitting from LTE-related activity and network transformation projects -Meanwhile, Asia Pacific declined nearly 1/3 in the same timeframe Infonetics' quarterly carrier VoIP and IMS report provides worldwide and regional market share, market size, forecasts through 2017, analysis, and trends for trunk media gateways, SBCs, media servers, softswitches, voice application servers, HSS, CSCF, BGCF, MGCF, IM/ presence application servers, and subscribers. Companies tracked: Acme Packet, Alcatel-Lucent, AudioCodes, BroadSoft, Cirpack (formerly Technicolor), Dialogic, Ericsson, GENBAND, Huawei, Italtel, Mavenir, MetaSwitch, NEC, Nokia Siemens Networks, RadiSys, Sonus, ZTE, and others. To buy the report, contact Infonetics: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp. Infonetics Research is an international market research and consulting firm serving the communications industry. More information: www.infonetics.com/infonetics-events www.infonetics.com/login. www.infonetics.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]