Carrier VoIP Continues to Transform Mobile River/Fixed Networks

Synergy Research Group announces the publishing of Carrier VoIP Q4 2009 and YE 2009 marketplace shares. The worldwide marketplace for Carrier VoIP totaled just over $10 billion for the full class 2009. Year over class, the market felled seam 18 percentage; significantly less than drops measured in other Telecom and IT equipment markets. The biggest drivers for Carrier VoIP traditionally rich person been migrating aging TDM PSTN switches to VoIP platforms; in the shoemaker’s last 24 months further emergence has been added with Mobile Operators pursuing the Capex and OpEx advantages of IP as did the Wireline networks before it.

Mobile deployments for Carrier VoIP have made a serious impingement on marketplace sizes and market players for the VoIP Media Gateway market. Over the last 2 years the changes rich person been dramatic and variety continues with GENBAND’s impending acquisition of Nortel’s CVAS group. The relocation by GENBAND will garner a market contribution position twice that of their nearest competitor.

2009 WW Media Gateway (Wireline and Mobile) Port Shipment Market Shares

Rankings Market Shares GENBAND 1 22.99% Huawei 2 15.32% Nokia-Ernst Werner von Siemens 3 12.98% Ericsson 4 11.86% Nortel 5 8.45%

Synergy further believes that IMS volition have a strong impingement on the Carrier VoIP marketplace over the advent years. In 2009, it was clear that IMS made its home run as a highly viable and transformational overhaul obstetrical delivery platform for both fixed line and mobile carriers. One such marquise IMS example is AT&T’s U-Verse meshing where they have added over 1 Million IMS VoIP subscribers in the last 12 months.

“Although IMS has been around for a figure of years, it clearly showed its potential in 2009,” said Jeremy Duke, Principal Analyst and Founder, Synergy Research Group. “Synergy believes 2010 volition appearance more IMS market development with increased deployments and continued industry cooperation such as that seen with the One Voice Initiative.”

2009 WW IMS VoIP Shipment Market Shares

Rankings Market Shares Alcatel-Lucent 1 47.05% Ericsson 2 31.LXXX Huawei 3 10.quarter mile

In 2009, Alcatel-Lucent was the number ace seller for IMS VoIP Subscriber shipments. Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson rich person been the most active in this development marketplace. We anticipate more vendors to come into the ring in the years ahead. One faster riser main continues to be Huawei, who gained 5 marketplace share points for IMS VoIP market contribution in 2009.

Another growing area organism tracked by Synergy includes the GGSN/SGSN and PDN equipment markets. Synergy believes with Smart Phone usage increasing, a tidal waving of information and video traffic is construction that will violence mobile operators to make large investments to contend with the variety in traffic. We anticipate eyesight more seller activeness here as vendors jockey to position themselves to take advantage of this meshing investiture — as seen with Cisco acquiring Starent in late 2009.