Carrier VoIP Equipment Market Up 40% Year-over-Year

Worldwide next gen voice product revenue totaled $493 million in 1Q05, down 8% from 4Q04 but up 40% between 1Q04 and 1Q05, and is forecast to grow to $5.8 billion in 2008, according to Infonetics Research's quarterly market share and forecast service, Service Provider Next Gen Voice Equipment.

All segments of the next gen voice market are up year-over-year, though the softswitch segment is the only one that saw sequential growth over 4Q04.

"The market continues to move further mainstream, and last month's announcement from BT is further indicative of the maturation of the market," said Infonetics Research's Kevin Mitchell, directing analyst and author of the
report. "BT's selection of preferred suppliers for its 21st Century Network program to create a converged MPLS network for voice and data services -- a five-year, 10 billion pounds sterling investment cycle -- is a major deal that will affect router, optical, access, and VoIP equipment markets in Europe for years, in part as many European operators are looking to learn from BT's experience. Alcatel, Cisco, and Siemens were chosen for the metro nodes, which include media gateway, session border controller, BRAS, and edge router functions. Ericsson was chosen to provide the i-node elements, which include softswitches, bandwidth shaping, and network intelligence. These vendors, and their partners, will benefit in sales and prestige associated with this deal."

1Q05 Market Highlights
-- Worldwide softswitch revenue is up 4% from 4Q04 and 63% from 1Q04
-- Nortel is the worldwide revenue market share leader in the softswitch market
-- Siemens is number two for worldwide softswitch revenue
-- Italtel is third worldwide but first in EMEA after nearly doubling softswitch revenue share in EMEA in 1Q05
-- Trunk media gateways topped $200 million and high-density media
gateways represent 78% of all trunk media gateway revenue
-- The geographic breakdown for total service provider next gen voice equipment: 45% North America, 27% EMEA, 21% Asia Pacific, and 7% CALA

Service Provider Next Gen Voice Equipment tracks VoIP subscribers, media servers, session border controllers, trunk media gateways (including high density and mid-low density), voice application servers, softswitches, and
class 5 packet switches. Forecasts are updated quarterly and cover all regions (worldwide, North America, EMEA, Asia Pacific, and CALA).

Companies tracked in this service include Acme Packet, Alcatel, AudioCodes, BayPackets, Broadsoft, Carrius, CIRPACK, Cisco, Convedia, CopperCom, Ericsson, Huawei, IPeria, IP Unity, Italtel, Jasomi, LongBoard, Lucent, Marconi, MetaSwitch, Mera, NeoTIP, NetCentrex, Netrake, NexTone, NewCross, Nortel, Pactolus, Sansay, sentitO, Siemens, Sonus, Sylantro, Tekelec, Ubiquity, UTStarcom, Veraz, Xener, and others.

For the table of contents, log on to Infonetics Research's Information Portal at www.info.infonetics.com. For sales, contact Larry Howard, vice president, at larry@infonetics.com or 408-583-0011 x335.

Infonetics Research (www.infonetics.com) is an international market research and consulting firm covering the data networking and telecommunications industries in North America, Europe, and Asia. Infonetics helps companies develop, market, and sell products and services by providing objective analysis of end-users, service providers, and product manufacturers. Infonetics has offices in Silicon Valley, the Boston Metro Area, and London.

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