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Researcher Predicts 1.2 Billion SIP Users |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007 |
Industry Research outfit ABI Research has released a report predicting that by 2012 there could be as many as 1.2 Billion SIP Users once VoIP 'becomes the norm' after 2010.
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Initiation Protocol (SIP) services will begin to dominate the world's telecom markets rapidly, says the researcher and almost half of all telecom users will have at least one SIP-based
service.
The report suggest users will have multiple
services for multiple devices in a nightmare scenario that sounds difficult to track anybody down.
"Using
SIP, telephony becomes another Web application, which can be integrated
into other Internet services. It allows service providers to build
converged voice and multimedia services," says ABI Research analyst
Ian Cox.
By
2012, ABI Research expects almost 1.2 billion VoIP users to be active,
most users also subscribing to several forms of messaging and video
sharing driven by the interest in user-generated content.
"The
path to this all-IP goal is complicated: migrating existing services
onto IP networks while retaining resources until they can be taken out
of service is not a straightforward process," said Cox.
"Mobile operators'
voice services are already optimised to reduce network traffic, and the
move to VoIP is not an easy choice until the introduction of LTE or
HSPA. One method that has gained some momentum is to use an IP overlay
based on SIP. This allows new services to be
designed and launched using a well-supported standard that also opens
the way to bring Web services, service delivery platforms, and
ultimately IMS into the network," he said.
Additional
services supported by SIP will include presence, click-to-dial, buddy
lists, email and Web access which are assumed to be "core" services and
will be included as standard in any service offering, and bundled with
broadband access. A portion of the VoIP users will also be connected to
a fixed-mobile convergence service.
The report, "The Worldwide SIP Services Market" forecasts for the market
potential for SIP usage, services
revenue and capital expenditure.
www.abiresearch.com
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