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Written by Adam Gosling
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Wednesday, 01 June 2005 |
Infonetics Research says worldwide VoIP revenues dropped 8% sequentially in Q1 but was up over the figures for a year ago. The researcher is predicting big things from the market - in large part driven by North America and the United Kingdom.
Asia Pacific represents only 21 percent of the total service provider VoIP market, with the US accounting for 45 percent and EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) represents another 27 percent.
Growth in the United Kingdom will be driven largely by BT’s decision to move to an entirely VoIP infrastructure by 2010, says the report.
“The market continues to move further mainstream, and last month’s announcement from BT is further indicative of the maturation of the market,” said Infonetics Research’s Kevin Mitchell, directing analyst and author of the report.
“BT’s selection of preferred suppliers for its 21st Century Network program to create a converged MPLS network for voice and data services—a five-year, £10 billion investment cycle—is a major deal that will affect router, optical, access, and VoIP equipment markets in Europe for years, in part as many European operators are looking to learn from BT's experience.
“Alcatel, Cisco, and Siemens were chosen for the metro nodes, which include media gateway, session border controller, BRAS, and edge router functions. Ericsson was chosen to provide the i-node elements, which include softswitches, bandwidth shaping, and network intelligence. These vendors, and their partners, will benefit in sales and prestige associated with this deal,” he said.
The total product revenue for Q1 2005 was US$493 million was up 40 percent year-on-year (YoY), while the market is forecast to grow to US$5.8 billion by 2008, according to Infonetics Research’s quarterly market share and forecast service, Service Provider Next Gen Voice Equipment.
Only the softswitch segment saw sequential growth over 4Q04 rising 4 percent sequentially and an impressive 63 percent YoY. In marketshare terms, Infonetics says Nortel is the revenue leader in this segment followed by Siemens.
Service Provider Next Gen Voice Equipment tracks VoIP subscribers, media servers, session border controllers, trunk media gateways (including high density and mid-low density), voice application servers, softswitches, and class 5 packet switches. Forecasts are updated quarterly and cover all regions (worldwide, North America, EMEA, Asia Pacific, and CALA).
Infonetics Research
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