From the Wires
Infonetics: Carrier VoIP/IMS Market Sees First Positive Year Since 2008
Feb. 19, 2013 03:01 PM
Market research firm Infonetics
Research today released market share and forecast excerpts from its
4th quarter 2012 (4Q12) and year-end Service
Provider VoIP and IMS Equipment and Subscribers report.
(Detailed analysis will be published March 4.)
ANALYST NOTE
“As
we predicted, after 3 years of annual declines, the carrier VoIP
and IMS
equipment market turned the corner in 2012, growing 9% over the previous
year due to strong IMS sales,” notes Diane
Myers, principal analyst for VoIP, UC, and IMS at Infonetics
Research. “It’s still early days for IMS equipment and applications
for LTE,
but a handful of operators are placing orders that are positively
impacting revenue.”
Myers
adds: “This is a taste of what’s to come over the next few years as
wireless operators step into voice
over LTE (VoLTE) and RCS
begins to roll out across multiple regions.”
CARRIER VOIP AND IMS MARKET HIGHLIGHTS
-
Global sales of carrier voice over IP (VoIP)
and IP multimedia subsystem (IMS)
equipment topped $800 million in 4Q12, thanks to a strong core of IMS,
voice application servers, and softswitches
-
IMS equipment made up just over 40% of total VoIP and IMS revenue in
2012, offsetting overall declines in legacy softswitch and trunk media
gateways
-
Though softswitches continue to decline on an annual basis, some
operators are replacing early generation softswitches with new ones,
opting not to switch to IMS
-
For the full year, the Caribbean and Latin America region (CALA)
posted the strongest growth of all regions, spiking 37%
-
Huawei solidified its position atop the VoIP and IMS market
share leaderboard in 2012, with around 1/5 of the global market; Alcatel-Lucent
leapfrogged GENBAND to seize the #2 spot
-
Standout vendors in terms of sequential revenue growth in 2012 include Alcatel-Lucent,
BroadSoft, Ericsson, Huawei, Mavenir, Nokia Siemens Networks, and ZTE,
all benefitting from the expansion of IMS networks
VOIP REPORT SYNOPSIS
Infonetics’ quarterly carrier
VoIP and IMS report provides worldwide and regional market share,
market size, forecasts, analysis, and trends for trunk media gateways,
session border controllers (SBCs),
media servers, Class 4 and Class 5 softswitches, voice application
servers, IMS core equipment (HSS,
BGCF, MGCF, CSCF
servers), IMS application servers, and VoIP and IMS subscribers.
Companies tracked include Acme Packet, Alcatel-Lucent, AudioCodes,
BroadSoft, Dialogic, Ericsson, GENBAND, Huawei, Italtel, Mavenir,
MetaSwitch, NEC, Nokia Siemens Networks, RadiSys, Sonus, Technicolor,
Xener, ZTE, and others. To buy
the report, contact Infonetics: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp.
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