Telecom network vendor Huawei is leading the service provider VoIP and IMS market in Q2 2014, said Infonetics Research.

The Chinese company has 28 percent share in the global service provider VoIP and IMS market against Genband 10 percent, Ericsson 10 percent, Alcatel-Lucent 9 percent and Nokia Networks 8 percent.

Huawei and Metaswitch are the standout IMS/VoIP vendors.

Top telecom network equipment vendors — Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Huawei, and Nokia Networks — are benefitting from VoLTE-related activity and product sets that extend beyond IMS.

Infonetics Research said the global service provider VoIP and IMS market dipped 6 percent annually and 12 percent sequentially to $878 million.

The 6 percent decline is not giving alarm signals, said Infonetics.

The report said nationwide launches of voice over LTE (VoLTE) have taken place only in small countries and city-states such as South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Larger nationwide launches of VoLTE in the U.S. and Japan are expected to begin toward the end of 2014. Besides the activity of telecom operators in Europe, Canada, and other parts of Asia, this will fuel IMS equipment related to VoLTE in 2015.

“At the end of 2013, we projected the IMS equipment market would slow in 2014 as large operators in North America and Asia Pacific commercially launch VoLTE services and capacity begins to be utilized, and this is indeed happening,” said Diane Myers, principal analyst for VoIP, UC, and IMS at Infonetics Research.
The report said home subscriber servers (HSSs), voice application servers (VASs), and media gateway control function (MGCF) equipment were the only VoIP/IMS product segments to post year-over-year growth in Q2.

Asia Pacific and EMEA notched solid VoIP/IMS revenue gains in 2Q14 over the same period a year ago, while North America skidded.

Baburajan K
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