Infonetics: SBC market a $1B business by 2015; Acme Packet top vendor

Talk about dominating... new research from Infonetics shows that 96 percent of service providers asked to pick the top two global SBC vendors named Acme Packet (Nasdaq: APKT), and 26 percent of respondents named only the Bedford, Mass.-based company.

Infonetics Research, in its recently released "SBC Deployment Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey," also said the SBC market, grew 45 percent in 2010 to $271 million, as IP voice traffic continued to grow. The segment should hit $1 billion by 2015, Infornetics said, driven by fixed-mobile convergence and wireless access.

"Though traditionally deployed in fixed-line networks for residential and business VoIP service access (including trunking), the use of session border controllers for interconnection between service providers continues to expand as the world's voice networks increasingly go all-IP," said Diane Myers, directing analyst for VoIP and IMS at Infonetics Research. "Our latest survey confirms that two of the biggest growth areas for new SBC deployments over the next two years are fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) and wireless access."

The research firm said SIP trunking is the No. 1 SBC application used by service providers and will continue to be through 2013, followed by interconnecting to other service providers and residential VoIP.

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