Comprehensive Unified Communications Products and Services Reports from Wainhouse Research and In-Stat Forecast $48 Billion Market by 2012.BOSTON & SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com) and Wainhouse Research (http://www.wainhouse.com) have combined their high-tech market research and data to create a first-of-its-kind unified communications The real time redirection of a voice, text or e-mail message to the device closest to the intended recipient at any given time. For example, voice calls to desk phones could be routed to the user's cellphone when required. products and services forecast. The result is a rationalized forecast that estimates the size of the component technologies (listed below) that could go into a unified communications solution.
Global UC Forecast Summary, 2007-2012 > >
> > 2012
5 YrCAGR
All Unified Communications Product Elements > > $24.5B
7%
All Unified Communications Services Elements > > $24.2B
22%
Total > > $48.7B
13%
The "Worldwide Unified Communications Services Forecast" is now available as a follow-up to the "Worldwide Unified Communications Product Forecast." This latest report includes products and/or services from the following segments: * Hosted telephony (IP Centrex A telephone service in which an IP-based PBX is located in the telephone company's facilities. It connects to the customer via the LAN rather than by telephone wires. IP CENTREX offers voice over IP and other IP-based services as well as connectivity to the regular telephone system (PSTN). and broadband VoIP services) * Audio conferencing See audioconferencing. * Web collaboration * Videoconferencing bridging The Unified Communications Products Forecast (released previously) includes the following premise-based components: * Presence and instant messaging Presence and Instant Messaging (PRIM) was an early proposal to the IETF of a standard protocol for instant messaging. No work has been done on it since 2001, however. Currently, SIP, its derivative SIMPLE, and XMPP are being considered for use as instant messaging protocols. systems sold to enterprises and service providers (including mobile UC clients) * Enterprise telephony (PBXs--IP and TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) A technology that transmits multiple signals simultaneously over a single transmission path. Each lower-speed signal is time sliced into one high-speed transmission. ) * Audio conferencing bridges sold to enterprises and service providers * Web collaboration servers sold to enterprises and service providers * Team workspaces * Unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. (premise-based) * Videoconferencing (bridges, group endpoints, telepresence Meaning "long distance presence," it refers to videoconferencing applications that feel like a live meeting. Notable features are larger screens that may approach a virtual reality environment and sensors that keep at least one window focused on whomever is speaking at the moment. systems, and desktop collaboration endpoints with video) In addition to forecasting the individual unified communications products and services components, each report forecasts how much of each component will be sold as part of an integrated unified communications solution with a presence-enabled unified interface that enables ad hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode. use of multiple components. By 2012, integrated UC product deployments will reach $12.5 US billion and integrated UC services will achieve $4.1 US billion in sales. For more information on this research or to purchase these forecasts, please visit: http://www.wainhouse.com/reports, or contact Sara Fargo, Wainhouse Research Client Services Manager at sfargo@wainhouse.com; or http://www.in-stat.com/catalog/07/wainhouse.asp, or contact Elaine Potter, In-Stat Sales Representative at epotter@reedbusiness.com. The price is $3,995 (US) each. About In-Stat Technology vendors, service providers, technology professionals and market specialists, worldwide, rely on In-Stat's experienced staff and in-depth research to support critical business, product and technology decisions. In-Stat's insights are derived from both a deep technology understanding and comprehensive research, which examines each segment of the value chain for each market. 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In 2005, Reed Business Information started the Quill Awards, a literary award broadcast on NBC. , In-Stat is a division of the largest business-to-business publisher in the U.S. About Wainhouse Research Wainhouse Research is an independent market research firm that focuses on critical issues in the unified communications, rich media conferencing, and collaboration space. The company conducts multi-client as well as custom research studies for industry vendors, consults with end users on key implementation issues In the Business world, companies frequently set-up a connection between which they transfer data. When the connection is being set-up, it is referred to as implementation. When issues occur during this phase, they are known as implementation issues. , publishes a free news bulletin (the Wainhouse Research Bulletin), white papers, and market statistics, hosts conferences, and delivers public and private seminars as well as speaker presentations at industry group meetings. For vendor companies, Wainhouse Research has been engaged to perform strategy development, product assessments, technology and market snapshots, competitive overviews, product and corporate positioning studies, new product pricing studies, and end user surveys to support product development teams. Vendor clients include a long list of companies ranging from unknown start-ups to industry leaders in virtually every corner of the unified communications and conferencing industry, from service providers to equipment manufacturers to software developers to resellers and integrators. End user assignments, primarily for F1000 clients, have included conferencing and communications assessments, RFP (Request For Proposal) A document that invites a vendor to submit a bid for hardware, software and/or services. It may provide a general or very detailed specification of the system. 1. (business) RFP - Request for Proposal. 2. development, vendor identification and selection, development of implementation strategy, and IP communications A general term for networks that use the IP protocol for voice (VoIP) and video traffic. See IP telephony. project management. |
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