Dell'Oro Group Forecasts IP Telephony Carrier Market Revenues to Reach $4.7 Billion in 2010; IMS Opens Way to Multimedia Services.REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. -- According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recently published report by Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, IP Telephony The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. Carrier market revenues are forecasted to grow from $1.6 billion in 2004 to $4.7 billion in 2010. Sales of Class 5 subscriber access solutions now complement the sales of Class 4 trunk networks that drove the early years of Next Generation Network Equipment (NGN (Next Generation Networks) An umbrella term for mixed voice and data networks running over the IP protocol. See IP Multimedia Subsystem. ) sales. Sales of both Class 4 and Class 5 solutions are forecast to climb as the upgrade of the circuit-switched PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. to the IP-based NGN accelerates over the next several years. "Service Providers' transition to 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) is part of their broader network transformation to all-IP networks that deliver expanded services via broadband connections," said Steve Raab, Director of IP Telephony research at Dell'Oro Group. "Today's residential and business VoIP services will expand to include fixed-mobile-convergence, multimedia services and gaming as service providers adopt the emerging IP Multimedia System (IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. ) architecture," added Raab. About the Report The Dell'Oro Group 5-Year Forecast Report offers a complete overview of the IP Telephony Carrier industry with tables covering manufacturers' revenue, average selling prices, license/channel shipments for softswitches, and media gateways. The report also includes breakouts of high density, medium density, and low density media gateways. To purchase this report, contact Nancy Shawver at +1.650.622.9400 x223 or via email at Nancy@Delloro.com. About Dell'Oro Group As the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, Dell'Oro Group provides in-depth, objective research and analysis that enable component manufacturers, equipment vendors, and investment firms to make fact-based, strategic decisions. For more information, contact Dell'Oro Group at +1.650.622.9400 or visit www.DellOro.com. |
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