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Global
News
May
27, 2004
VoIP equipment market to grow 52 percent
by Q1-05
UNITED
STATES -- According to Infonetics Research's quarterly
worldwide market share and forecast service, Next Gen
Voice Products, worldwide next-gen voice product revenue
totaled just over US $294 million in Q1-04, down 13
percent from Q4-03. It is likely to grow to US $446
million by Q1-05 as the market continues to move from
trial mode to commercial deployments.
Kevin
Mitchell, directing analyst and co-author of the report,
Infonetics Research, said: "The market stumbled
this quarter, as we expected, because it came off such
great heights from the previous quarter due mostly to
a surge of year-end budget clearing. But the trend is
still moving toward IP, the market is still above Q3-03
levels. We still project massive investments in next-gen
voice equipment between 2004 and 2007."
Matthias
Machowinski, co-author of the report, added: "A
number of high profile carriers have unveiled their
hosted IP communication services over the past two quarters.
There was a surge in worldwide voice application server
subscriber license shipments in the Q1-04, indicating
that these services are finding success in the market
place, and subscriber counts are catching up with the
capacity that was shipped in earlier quarters."
Q1-04
market highlights
- Worldwide
voice application server subscriber license shipments
are up 110 percent from Q4-03;
- Softswitches
and media gateways make up 90 percent of next-gen
voice equipment revenue; and
- North
America took a larger share of worldwide revenue this
quarter, followed by EMEA and Asia Pacific, which
are nearly tied.
Contact:
Infonetics Research
Tel: +1-408-298-7999
larry@infonetics.com
www.infonetics.com
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