Dell'Oro Group Report Shows Carrier Build-Out of Next Generation Voice over IP Up 36 Percent; Greater Number of Vendors Share a Growing Market.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. -- A newly published report from Dell'Oro Group, a trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. industries, reveals that sales of next generation 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) equipment, including softswitches, media gateways, and hybrid media gateway softswitches, grew 3 percent worldwide in the second quarter of 2004. Purchases of softswitch trunk A communications channel between two points. It generally refers to a high-bandwidth, fiber-optic line between telephone switching centers (central offices). Telephone "trunks" handle thousands of simultaneous voice and data signals, whereas telephone "lines" are the wires from the licenses, which are indicative of deployments in the Service Provider network core, grew 4 percent in 2Q04 over 1Q04, while subscriber licenses declined 12% during the second quarter. Year to year, sales of softswitch trunk licenses grew almost 36%. "Although subscriber licenses declined this quarter, the migration of VoIP to the access edge is underway. Carriers are planning, piloting, and rolling out residential and business VoIP services including 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). ," commented Steve Raab, Director of 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. research at Dell'Oro Group. "We expect local exchange access services to be a key growth area for this market beginning 2005."
Total Worldwide IP Telephony Carrier Equipment Market
(Softswitch, Hybrid Media Gateway Softswitch, Media Gateway)
Total Market 2003 2004
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Softswitch $401 M $528 M
Hybrid Media Gateway Softswitch $61 M $102 M
Media Gateway $834 M $952 M
Total $1,296 M $1,583 M
About the Report The Dell'Oro Group IP Telephony Carrier Quarterly Report offers complete, in-depth coverage of the market, including vendor market shares, manufacturers' revenue, units / licenses / channels, and average selling prices The average sales price of goods or commodities. Especially used in the retail sector and technology distribution. for the following technologies: Softswitch, Hybrid Media Gateway Softswitches (Next Generation Class 4/5 Switches), and Media Gateways. The report also includes breakouts of high density, medium density, and low density Media Gateways. To purchase this report call +1.650.622.9400 x223 or email Julie@DellOro.com About Dell'Oro Group As a trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, Dell'Oro Group provides in-depth, objective research and quantitative analysis Quantitative Analysis A security analysis that uses financial information derived from company annual reports and income statements to evaluate an investment decision. Notes: that enables 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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