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IP Telephony Sales Dipped In Q1: IDC |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Wednesday, 20 July 2005 |
Despite being up 63 percent year-on-year, IDC found the enterprise IP Telephony market declined 5 percent sequentially from Q4 2004 and chose to lead with that headline in its news release.
Watch out over the next couple of days once the rest of the IT press gets hold of those stats.
According to the latest “IDC Australia Quarterly IP Telephony Enterprise Equipment Tracker” which tracks IP Phones, Single-mode IP PBXs and Dual-mode IP PBXs, the seasonally predictable drop didn’t stop a series of deals in the SME sector as well as some larger deals. One of which it cites for each of four main vendors.
Australia Master Games bought Cisco, Schneider Electric went with Avaya, University of New England chose Alcatel and the NSW Department of Primary Industries tied up with Nortel.
"The war in the IP telephony market is far from over. Market share competition among leading equipment vendors is getting tougher, but competitors are now coming from different directions, especially in the SME segment with residential VoIP players moving up the value chain and open source IP PBXs beginning to crawl into this market," said Susana Vidal, Senior Telecommunications Analyst at IDC.
Here are the other findings from the report (unedited).
* Cisco continues to sit tight in the top spot in the IP phones and single-mode IP PBX segments, despite Cisco’s declining market share as its Q105 shipments dropped over 20% compared to Q404.
* Avaya held on to the second position in the IP phones and single-mode IP PBX markets, thus coming very close to being neck-to-neck with Cisco this quarter as well. Avaya IP phones shipments also declined over 20% quarter over quarter.
* Alcatel and Nortel, third and fourth respectively, have displaced NEC in the IP phones segment this quarter, relegating NEC to the fifth position. NEC had a large IP phones shipment earlier in the year with the VOTS deal.
* Polycom had explosive sequential growth of over 200% in their IP phones shipments that has given them the six position, sales come mostly from Telstra's channel with their IP Centrex offering.
* Alcatel and Mitel have the third and fourth positions in the single-mode IP PBX market, with customer wins in the education and business services for the former and government and utilities for the latter.
* NEC kept the first place of the dual-mode IP PBX market, with deals in the education, heath care, manufacturing and government verticals and Nortel kept the second place in this market as it continued to ship to the transport/logistics, retail and manufacturing verticals.
The "IDC Australia Quarterly IP Telephony Enterprise Equipment Tracker" includes information on IP Phones, Single-mode IP PBXs and Dual-mode IP PBXs, also vertical splits and forecasts and analysis.
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