[June 03, 2013] Infonetics Releases Enterprise Telephony Market Report Tweet Jun 03, 2013 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Infonetics Research released vendor market share and forecasts from its 1st quarter 2013 (1Q13) Enterprise Unified Communications and Voice Equipment report. "In the first quarter of 2013, enterprise PBX spending dropped to its lowest point since mid-2009," said Diane Myers, principal analyst for VoIP, UC, and IMS at Infonetics Research, in a release. "The big squeeze is coming from hyper-competitive price pressure all over, with average revenue per line down across the board. But conservative spending by businesses is exacerbating the problem in some regions, while demand is actually flat-to-up in North America and Asia, reflecting uneven economic recoveries. "Meanwhile, demand for unified communications is increasing in all regions as businesses seek tools to help them boost employee productivity and flexibility." Highlights -The global enterprise PBX market (TDM, hybrid, and pure PBXs) totaled $1.8 billion in 1Q13, down 9 percent from the previous quarter, and down 10 percent from the year-ago 1st quarter -Sequentially, Asia Pacific was the lone bright spot, with PBX revenue up 7 percent in 1Q13 (typically a strong quarter for Asia) -At the other end of the spectrum, licenses for unified communications (UC) are up both quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year, and revenue is up 21 percent from the year-ago 1st quarter -The top vendors - Cisco, Avaya, NEC and Siemens in 1Q13 - remain in a battle to gain customers and hold on to existing ones as enterprises migrate to IP and UC solutions -LG Ericsson, Mitel, NEC, and ShoreTel all notched year-over-year revenue gains in 1Q13 -Microsoft continues to post gains in the PBX market, leveraging its strength in unified communications Infonetics' quarterly enterprise telephony report provides global and regional market size, vendor market share, analysis, forecasts through 2017, and analysis for TDM PBX and KTS systems, hybrid and pure IP PBXs, IP PBXs by system size, VoIP gateways, unified communications, IP deskphones and softphones. Tracked: Aastra, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, HP (3Com), LG Ericsson, Microsoft, Mitel, NEC, Polycom, Samsung, ShoreTel, Siemens, Sonus, and Toshiba. Infonetics Research is a market research and consulting firm. Report information: infonetics.com/contact.asp. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]