Research and Markets: FoIP Server Markets, 2009-2014 - By 2013, Hardware Sales Will Be Flat and Will Start to Decline

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/290ad6/foip_server_market) has announced the addition of the "FoIP Server Markets, 2009-2014" report to their offering.

FoIP Server Markets, that says the market will grow rapidly during the five-year forecast period, from $130 million in 2009 to $415 million in 2014, a 26.1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). The fact is that switching from conventional fax servers to FoIP servers saves companies money and so businesses are making the switch. The market growth will also be driven by the virtualization of fax servers, the desire of companies to centralize their fax operations, to enhance their VoIP initiatives with FoIP, and to endow their multifunction peripherals (MFPs) and fax machines with audit trails to satisfy compliance regulations.

Overall, FoIP servers generated 88% of 2010 revenues, while hardware-based sales accounted for 12%. By 2013, hardware sales will be flat and will start to decline.

This year, Open Text is the leading FoIP supplier, as its FoIP revenues increased by 46% to $54 million. This placed the company just ahead of Sagemcom whose FoIP revenues only increased by 6% from $48 million to $51 million in 2010. Sagemcom's results were hurt by the conversion from euros to dollars which decreased the company's revenues to $51 million, whereas, if the euro conversion had stayed as it was last year, Sagemcom's revenues would have been $55 million, causing it to retain its leadership position. Sagemcom derives about 80% of its revenues from Europe.

SIP (session-initiation protocol) trunking and fax is a key issue for market growth. SIP trunking is a service offered by an ITSP (Internet Telephony Service Provider) that permits businesses that have a PBX installed to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP), by using the same connection as the Internet connection. SIP trunking eliminates can save in overall telecommunications costs. By extending the SIP capabilities of the corporate network outside the LAN, satellite offices, remote workers and even customers can use VoIP and other forms of realtime communications applications to share ideas and increase productivity. But, as reported in last year's research study, SIP trunking has created and still creates fax interoperability problems.

Today, the Fax Task Group (FTG) is testing T.38 FoIP with the 37 Internet Telephony Service Providers from the i3 Forum who represent a combined subscriber base of over 1.5 billion in over 100 countries. The FTG is overseeing the FoIP testing and they are initially testing 14 different IP carrier networks, which includes 14 different environments. Several of the networks have never used T.38 faxing and another tore down any call where it detected a fax. So the Fax Task force has its hands full ironing out the wrinkles. But it is making progress. At the time this report was written, such interoperability was starting to be accomplished between the 14 different carrier networks. By 2012, interoperability should be accomplished between the 14 carriers, and from there, the assumption is that the other 23 carriers in the i3 will follow suit.

Companies Mentioned:

• Adtran (ObjectWorld)
• Axacore
• Biscom
• DPD International
• emFast
• Equisys
• Esker
• FaxCore
• Fenestrae
• GFI
• Hewlett-Packard
• Imagicle (Stonevoice)
• Imecom
• Kofax
• Lane Telecommunications
• MESSAGEmanager Solutions
• Microsoft
• Open Text
• Sagemcom
• SerVonic
• Softlinx
• 2Ring
• FoIP Hardware Suppliers by Market Share
• FoIP Hardware Supplier Profiles
• AcuLab
• AudioCodes
• Commetrex
• Dialogic
• Floreat
• Gao Research

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