ABI Research Documents Enterprises' IP Telephony Strategies.OYSTER BAY Oyster Bay, uninc. area (1990 pop. 6,687) of the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau co., SE N.Y., on N Long Island, on Long Island Sound; settled 1653. It is chiefly residential. , N.Y. -- The traditional PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). telephone exchange has been connecting businesses for decades. But the writing is on the wall, as more cost effective and easily managed Voice over Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (VoIP) technologies increasingly penetrate the enterprise. The demand for equipment to enable VoIP services for enterprises is growing strongly, and a new study from ABI Abi (ā`bī) [short for Abijah], in the Bible, King Hezekiah's mother. (Application Binary Interface) A specification for a specific hardware platform combined with the operating system. Research, "Enterprise IP Telephony: Premises and Hosted-Service Equipment and Trends" provides forecast details for all regions of the world. It also includes a Vendor Matrix comparing IP-PBX solutions from 18 vendors, and a SWOT analysis SWOT Analysis A tool that identifies the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of an organization. of end-to-end solutions for enterprise VoIP from eleven vendors. The report examines enterprise purchases of VoIP systems as well as hosted VoIP services. According to Michael Arden, the firm's principal analyst of broadband and residential entertainment technologies, smaller companies that did not already have an elaborate telephone switching Telephone switching Moving one's assets from one mutual fund or variable annuity to another by telephone. telephone switching The movement of an investor's funds from one mutual fund to another mutual fund on the basis of an order given via system are adopting VoIP systems rapidly, spurring strong market growth, especially in North America. That region should maintain its market share dominance and technological edge through the study's forecast period, 2004-2010. But, he notes, "larger enterprises that have legacy PBX systems have a decision to make: do they rip out an expensive legacy system and write it off? Or do they build a 'bridge', and make a gradual migration to VoIP?" The latter choice is common, Arden says, and provides an opportunity for vendors like Cisco, Avaya, Alcatel and Nortel Networks - companies that already have considerable expertise in conventional PBX systems. An upcoming ABI Research report debates the migration to SIP for delivery of VoIP services and equipment integration. The report also presents a benchmarking model for enterprise VoIP costs, analyzing enterprise characteristics and determining the best VoIP model for several case studies. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , ABI Research maintains global operations that support annual research programs, quarterly intelligence services and market reports in wireless, automotive, semiconductors, broadband, and energy. Their market research products can be found on the Web at www.abiresearch.com, or by calling 516.624.2500. |
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