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Campbell, CALIFORNIA, March 3, 2009—Communications market research firm Infonetics Research recently released the fourth quarter (4Q08) edition of its Service Provider VoIP Equipment and Subscribers report. Highlights from the market research report follow.
“The fourth quarter of 2008 confirmed what we started seeing in the previous two quarters in North America, with signs in Western Europe and some parts of Asia as well: the market for carrier VoIP equipment has stalled due to large deployments nearing completion and shifting strategic priorities. The global economic downturn will likely exacerbate the drop in VoIP equipment sales.”
Diane Myers, Directing Analyst - Service Provider VoIP and IMS - Infonetics Research
REPORT HIGHLIGHTS
- After strong, double-digit annual revenue growth in the worldwide carrier VoIP equipment market since 2002, the market declined for the first time ever in 2008, dropping 6%
- For the quarter, the worldwide market is up 4% to $849 million in 4Q08, showing much weaker growth than is typical for the fourth quarter
- Quarterly growth was driven by modest gains in media server, softswitch, and voice application server sales
- Trunk media gateway and session border controller (SBC) sales were down for the quarter but up for the year
- Large RBOCs and ILECs are putting the brakes on VoIP as major projects are (or have been) completed
- The economic downturn is forcing operators to move their capital expenditures (capex) to other strategic priorities
- Cable MSOs are gearing up for PacketCable 2.0 residential VoIP deployments, but may postpone significant spending until 2010 given the current economic conditions
- Meanwhile, the number of residential and SOHO VoIP subscribers worldwide continues to increase at a steady clip, topping 107 million in 2008, driven mostly by EMEA and Asia Pacific
- Nortel was the big winner for the quarter, increasing softswitch and trunk media gateway revenue and gaining share in both categories
- Italtel posted triple-digit increases in Class 5 softswitch sales in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, Africa) in 4Q08, as softswitch prices held steady
- Sonus increased its trunk media gateway revenue 45% in 4Q08 from 3Q08
REPORT SYNOPSIS
Infonetics’ quarterly service provider VoIP report tracks Acme Packet, Alcatel-Lucent, AudioCodes, BroadSoft, Dialogic, Cisco, Comverse (NetCentrex), Ericsson, GENBAND, Huawei, Italtel, MERA, MetaSwitch, Movius, Nokia Siemens, Nortel, RadiSys Convedia, Sonus, Tekelec, Thomson Cirpack, UTStarcom, Veraz, Verso, Xener, and others.
The service provider VoIP report provides worldwide and regional market share, market size, forecasts through 2013, and analysis for VoIP subscribers and media processing and call control carrier VoIP equipment, including high-, mid-, and low-density trunk media gateways, SBCs, media servers, class 4 and class 5 softswitches, and voice application servers. IMS equipment is now tracked separately in Infonetics’ IMS Equipment and Subscribers report.
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Infonetics Research (www.infonetics.com) is an international market research and consulting firm serving the communications industry since 1990. A leader in defining and tracking emerging and established technologies in all world regions, Infonetics helps clients plan, strategize, and compete more effectively.
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