In North America, carrier VoIP and IMS spending up 76
percent year-over-year.
Infonetics expects the number of mobile and fixed-line
subscribers on IMS networks to grow 42 percent in 2012 to top 250 million.
In the first quarter of 2012 we saw the largest order of
IMS core equipment and application server licenses on record, secured by
Alcatel-Lucent — a clear sign that operators in North America are gearing up
for voice over LTE (VoLTE) deployments,” said Diane Myers, principal analyst
for VoIP and IMS at Infonetics Research.
While commercial VoLTE services have yet to launch, this
is a taste of what is to come as operators push forward over the next 5+ years.
That said, large equipment orders will be sporadic and the IMS market will
continue to be lumpy,” Myers added.
1Q12 was an good quarter for the service provider VoIP
and IMS equipment market because of the big IMS order for VoLTE. The market
also experienced continued fixed-line network transformation, fixed-mobile
convergence, and voice over broadband (VoBB) projects over IMS worldwide.