Report: Enterprise VoIP drove wireline NGN resurgence

Enterprise VoIP has played a key role in the resurgence of the wireline NGN market, a new study suggests.

Research firm Exact Ventures said the wireline voice core market grew 7 percent between the first and second quarter of this year, driven in part by the continued strength of enterprise VoIP services, including SIP trunking and hosted unified communications.

The company said the enterprise session border controller and voice application server markets each grew more than 40 percent compared to the second quarter of last year.

Exact Ventures said Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU), Huawei and ZTE each gained share in the worldwide IMS Core equipment market that increased more than 50 percent year-over-year in the second quarter, mainly as a result of sales to the Asia-Pacific region for the large scale wireline deployments by China Mobile and China Telecom.

"While wireline deployments currently dominate IMS Core sales, as voice-over-LTE services are introduced in the coming months and gain subscribers, the market will shift to become dominated by wireless deployments, which will drive the IMS market for well over a decade as the billions of wireless subscribers are gradually migrated to VoIP," said Greg Collins, founder and principal analyst at Exact Ventures.

Collins said older, more traditional wireline NGN segments of softswitches and media gateways, also are beginning to show stability as growth in wireline VoIP services will "also need to interface with legacy TDM services."

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