CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Market research firm Infonetics Research today released excerpts from its fourth quarter 2011 (4Q11) Service Provider VoIP and IMS Equipment and Subscribers vendor market share and forecast report.
ANALYST NOTE
“The carrier VoIP and IMS equipment market surged in the final quarter of 2011, as it often does at the end of the year, but the more important measure is the year-over-year comparison, and from that vantage point the market is down 2% in 2011 from 2010 as legacy trunk media gateway and softswitch sales drag on the overall market,” explains Diane Myers, directing analyst for VoIP and IMS at Infonetics Research.
Myers continues: “However, we’ll see this trend shift starting this year as the high-growth market segments -- including IMS core equipment and session border controllers -- become collectively large enough to offset the ongoing declines of the legacy products.”
SERVICE PROVIDER VOIP AND IMS MARKET HIGHLIGHTS
- Global sales of telecom service provider voice over IP (VoIP) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) equipment jumped 15.8% in 4Q11 over 3Q11, to $690 million
- For the full year, the overall carrier VoIP and IMS market ended down 2.1% in 2011 over 2010, to $2.6 billion
- After four years of annual declines, Infonetics forecasts the global carrier VoIP and IMS equipment market will reverse course and grow to $3.8 billion by 2016, led by IMS sales
- Growth in the overall market is being fueled by IMS network deployments as large service providers like AT&T, China Telecom, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom and NTT undergo network transformation projects; cable operators such as Comcast migrate to new networks; and wireless operators such as Verizon Wireless launch IMS for their LTE networks
- Vendors posting notable growth in the VoIP and IMS market in 2011 include Huawei, GENBAND, Alcatel-Lucent, and Acme Packet
- Huawei ends the 2011 year on top of the overall carrier VoIP and IMS market, just ahead of GENBAND
- Regionally, North America and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) had the strongest fourth quarter, posting carrier VoIP and IMS sales growth of more than 20% each
- For the full year, Latin America was the big standout, with a 34% increase in carrier VoIP and IMS equipment sales, as VoIP activity in this region grows, particularly in Brazil and Mexico
- Infonetics forecasts the number of global IMS-based subscribers to grow from 177 million in 2011 to 610 million in 2016
SERVICE PROVIDER VOIP AND IMS REPORT SYNOPSIS
Infonetics’ quarterly Service Provider VoIP and IMS Equipment and Subscribers report combines its previously separate VoIP and IMS reports into one to provide a comprehensive look at the trends as the market shifts from next-gen network VoIP to IMS. The report includes worldwide and regional market share, market size, forecasts, and analysis for multiple categories of trunk media gateways, session border controllers (SBCs), media servers, softswitches, voice application servers, IMS core equipment, IMS application servers, and VoIP and IMS subscribers. Vendors tracked: Acme Packet, Alcatel-Lucent, AudioCodes, BroadSoft, Cisco, Dialogic, Ericsson, GENBAND, Huawei, Italtel, Mavenir, MetaSwitch, NEC, Nokia Siemens, RadiSys, Sonus, Technicolor, Tekelec, Xener, ZTE, and others.
CLIENT CONFERENCE CALL
Diane Myers’ client conference call with highlights from this report is March 12, 11:30 a.m. Eastern.
RELATED RESEARCH
- Latest Infonetics VoIP research newsletter: http://bit.ly/zpdC5R
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UPCOMING EVENTS AND RESEARCH
Download report highlights, prospectuses, tables of contents, etc. at http://www.infonetics.com/login (see SERVICE PROVIDER VOIP AND IMS).
- Log in to download Infonetics’ 2012 Research Publication Calendar: http://bit.ly/zwjcRs
- Webinar: Year of the Lync – Migration to Microsoft Lync Voice Solutions
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- SIP Trunking and Enterprise SBC Strategies: North American Enterprise Survey
- IMS Service Strategies, Product Features, Vendor Leadership: Service Provider Survey
- North America and EMEA Business VoIP Service Leadership Scorecards
SALES
- Larry Howard, VP, Western NA, Asia, CALA: larry@infonetics.com, +1-408-583-3335
- Scott Coyne, Eastern NA, Texas, Midwest: scott@infonetics.com, +1-408-583-3395
- George Stojsavljevic, EMEA: george@infonetics.com, +44-755-488-1623
- Japan, Taiwan, Korea: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp
Infonetics Research is an international market research and consulting firm serving the communications industry since 1990. A leader in defining and tracking emerging and established technologies in all world regions, Infonetics helps clients plan, strategize, and compete more effectively.
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