CAMPBELL, CA — (Marketwire) — 08/22/11 — Market research firm today released excerpts from its second quarter 2011 (2Q11) and market share reports.
“While parts of the carrier market, specifically softswitches and gateways, are faced with ongoing declines, the equipment market is experiencing the opposite, up 87% in the second quarter of 2011 compared to the same quarter a year ago. Many factors are contributing to strong IMS market growth: Large service providers in China and Europe are in the midst of significant class 5 replacement projects; subscribers are being added to existing IMS networks on an ongoing basis; and wireless operators in North America have launched IMS for messaging and plan to go live with voice over (VoLTE) in 2012,” notes , directing analyst for VoIP and IMS at .
Global IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) equipment manufacturer revenue is up 20% sequentially and 87% year-over year in 2Q11
leads the fast-growing IMS session control function () server market in 2Q11
In 2Q11, Asia Pacific contributed 68% of all IMS equipment spending, driven primarily by activity in China, Japan, and South Korea
Mobile IMS-based spending will be a strong contributor to IMS market growth in the second half of 2011, particularly in North America as operators ramp up LTE deployments and prepare for VoLTE in 2012
In 2Q11, the global service provider VoIP equipment market (trunk media gateways, SBCs, media servers, softswitches, voice application servers), grew 13% sequentially to $507 million
Year-over-year (from 2Q10 to 2Q11), the global market is down 10.4%
(SBC) and voice application server (VAS) revenue is up 15% and 42% year-over-year, respectively, benefitting from the industry shift to IP and IMS
leads the combined service provider VoIP and IMS equipment market in 2Q11, followed by and
Infonetics- quarterly provides worldwide and regional market size, market share, forecasts through 2015, and analysis of mobile and fixed-line IMS subscribers and equipment. Equipment tracked: IMS voice and IM/presence application servers and IMS core equipment, including home subscriber servers (HSS), CSCF servers, media resource function (MRF), breakout gateway control function (BGCF), and media gateway control function (MGCF). Includes an IMS deployment tracker by region, country, carrier, and vendor. Vendors tracked: .
Infonetics- quarterly report provides worldwide and regional market share, market size, forecasts, and analysis for VoIP subscribers and media processing and call control carrier VoIP equipment, including high-, mid-, and low-density trunk media gateways, line access media gateways, SBCs, media servers, Class 4 and Class 5 softswitches, and voice application servers (IP Centrex/hosted IP PBX, IP trunking, residential). Vendors tracked: .
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For related and upcoming research, see SERVICE PROVIDER VOIP AND IMS on Infonetics- portal (), or follow the links below.
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Diane Myers
Directing Analyst, VoIP and IMS
Infonetics Research
+1-408-583-3391
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