Revenues
in emerging voice infrastructure markets, which include Session Border
Controller (SBC) and Voice Application Server (VAS), grew 30 percent
year-over-year in the first quarter of 2011, Dell’Oro Group said in its
recent survey.

 

The
two largest marketshare participants in SBCs are Acme Packet and Huawei, while
the largest VAS market participants are Broadsoft and GENBAND.

 

There
are some exciting trends underway in the voice infrastructure market today,” said Tam Dell’Oro, president at Dell’Oro Group.   While we had expected
older softswitch and media gateway equipment sales to decline from last year,
the Session Border Controller and Voice Application Server markets continued to
experience exceptional growth.”

 

Overall,
carrier IP telephony
revenues of $1.8 billion fell three percent versus year-ago results.
Significant operator activity in the past two quarters has resulted in IP
Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) deployment, which is estimated to have experienced
26 percent year-over-year license growth.  

 

IMS
is an Internet Protocol (IP) – based network over which both wireless and
wireline networks can deliver advanced features such as video and high-quality
voice calls.

 

With
Voice over Long Term Evolution technical demonstrations such as those at
Verizon in the first quarter now behind us, we expect the IMS market may
experience more strong growth in the future, with IMS core growth approaching
$1 billion in the next five years,” Dell’Oro added.

 

The
Dell’Oro Group Carrier IP Telephony Quarterly Report offers complete, in-depth
coverage of the market with tables covering manufacturers’ revenue, shipments,
and average selling prices for both wireline and wireless voice core markets.

 

The
wireline segment includes softswitches, media gateways, session border
controllers and voice application servers. The wireless segment includes
softswitches, media gateways and legacy mobile switching centers.

 

By
TelecomLead.com Team
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