Worldwide IP phone revenues exceeded $750 million in the third quarter of this year, according to a recently published report from Dell’ (News - Alert)Oro Group. The revenues have grown more than 40 percent compared to the same period last year. The research firm indicated that this growth is mostly due to strong demand for IP lines to the desktop.

 

According to the report, customers are now opting for more expensive IP phones instead of keeping older digital phones. IP phone revenues have, thus, become a larger part of a vendor’s revenue stream.

 

Alan Weckel, senior analyst at Dell’Oro Group said that IP phone growth accelerated in the third quarter as large enterprises that have completed the first phase of revamping their voice infrastructure by upgrading their call control to IP are now entering the second, multi-year phase of upgrading users’ desktops to IP phones.

 

“Vendors, such as Avaya (News - Alert), Cisco, and Nortel, that are closely integrating voice into an enterprise’s business processes — such as deploying Unified Communications — are seeing the greatest uptake in IP phone adoption,” said Weckel in a statement

 

The recent Dell’Oro Group IP Telephony Enterprise Quarterly Report also reveals that Cisco (News - Alert) became the third largest vendor of worldwide line shipments in the quarter. Cisco has surpassed Siemens, despite Siemens benefiting from a strong fiscal year-end quarter. Nortel (News - Alert) and Avaya remained the top two vendors of worldwide line shipments.