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02 декабря 2010 |
An Infonetics Research report finds the VOIP equipment market fell 9 percent in the third quarter of 2010.
Market research firm Infonetics Research released its third-quarter Service Provider VOIP Equipment and Subscribers and IMS Equipment and Subscribers market share and forecast reports, which found the total service provider VOIP equipment market, including trunk media gateways, SBCs, media servers, softswitches and voice application servers, decreased 9 percent from Q2 to Q3, to $511 million.
While
revenue is down for the quarter, shipments for almost all segments in the
market are up sequentially, with Asia Pacific the only region expected to post
year-over-year revenue growth in 2010 for service provider VOIP equipment. In
the third quarter 2010, Genband led the combined carrier VOIP and IP Multimedia
Subsystem (IMS) equipment market for worldwide revenue.
The worldwide IMS equipment market, including IMS core equipment and application servers, grew 4 percent in Q3, on the
heels of a 34 percent jump in the previous quarter. In Q3, the four top
vendors—Alcatel Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia Siemens Networks—continue to
fight it out for new deals and replacement RFPs. Ericsson and Nokia Siemens saw
revenue growth with Call Session Control Function (CSCF) in a relatively flat
quarter.
"The No. 1 story that will come out of 2010 for the IMS and carrier VOIP
equipment markets is China, where conditions are driving volumes up and pushing
prices down. There are large network transformation projects under way in
China, so demand for equipment is very strong, but at the same time, vendors
are willing to push the pricing limits to get into strategic accounts,” said
Diane Myers, directing analyst for VOIP and IMS at Infonetics. “In the third
quarter of 2010, every product category except media servers was impacted by
pricing pressures, so while shipments were up for most segments, total worldwide
revenue took a hit.”
Overall, the IMS equipment market is experiencing strong and healthy growth,
the report concluded, driven in the near term by the continued adoption of VOIP
services and service provider migration of VOIP services to IMS networks. Longer-term, the report predicted the
IMS market will get a boost from the push for enhanced mobile services, with
Long Term Evolution (LTE), a preliminary mobile communication standard, being
the most significant driver.
“Looking at the long-term prospects, the network elements that are best poised
for solid growth are those that facilitate the migration to all-IP networks,
such as session border controllers (SBCs),” Myers added.
Источник: Channel Insider
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