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BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, May 27, 2008—According to communications market research firm Infonetics Research, the worldwide enterprise telephony market inched up 2% between 4Q07 and 1Q08, to $2.5 billion, with TDM, pure IP, and hybrid equipment sales all posting low single-digit sequential growth.
The report, Enterprise Telephony Worldwide Market Share and Forecasts, says the overall market is up 6% from one year ago (1Q07), buoyed by strong IP PBX systems equipment sales, despite falling TDM PBX/KTS equipment sales.
“In the first quarter of 2008, we saw some weakness in the North American and EMEA enterprise telephony markets, but it was offset by strong results in Asia Pacific,” said Matthias Machowinski, directing analyst for enterprise voice and data at Infonetics Research. “Worldwide economic uncertainty could have a larger impact on this market than on others, since one of the prime drivers of PBX sales is the creation of new, and expansion of existing, businesses. While we've factored in a weak year for North America, we expect the overall worldwide PBX/KTS market to continue growing in 2008, at the end of which it will pass the $10 billion mark in annual revenue.”
Other report highlights:
- In Asia Pacific, TDM and IP PBX manufacturer revenue was up 26% sequentially (4Q07 to 1Q08)
- The top 6 PBX/KTS system vendors in 1Q08 (in terms of lines shipped) are Nortel, Cisco, Avaya, NEC, Alcatel-Lucent, and Siemens (in that order); together, these vendors account for 3/4 of the market
- Cisco is the only vendor whose overall PBX market share is increasing: in CY07, Cisco added 3 points to their revenue market share, while Avaya, Nortel, and Siemens were all down slightly
- The TDM segment of the enterprise telephony market is forecast to drop below the $1 billion mark for the first time in 2008
- Worldwide IP softphone shipments are up 76% sequentially (4Q07 to 1Q08)
Infonetics’ report provides worldwide and regional forecasts and market size for TDM PBX/KTS systems, IP PBX systems with hybrid and pure IP splits, IP PBX by system size, VoIP gateways, and IP deskphones and softphones. Companies tracked include 3Com, Aastra, AudioCodes, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Dialogic, Mitel, NEC, Nortel, Quintum, Samsung, ShoreTel, Siemens, Tadiran, Toshiba, Vertical, and others. Market share pivot tables are included.
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Infonetics Research (www.infonetics.com) is an international communications market research firm. Tracking emerging markets since 1990, Infonetics covers a broad range of service provider, product manufacturer, and enterprise and SMB markets, including network security, enterprise voice, unified communications, broadband networks, IPTV, IP video, mobile TV, optical networks, metro Ethernet, carrier routing and switching, wireless, FMC, VoIP, IMS, policy management, subscriber management, service management, carrier capex and opex, and more. Services include quarterly market share and forecasting, end-user survey research, service provider survey research, service provider capex analysis, and custom research and consulting.
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