Trend: VoIP boosts carrier infrastructure sales

Broadband carriers are building out. Typically, the market for carrier switches and routers usually dips a bit in the first quarter. Not this year; Infonetics Research says shipments increased by 8 percent from the last quarter of 2005 through the first three months of 2006. The study's author says the increase is due in part to massive global broadband build-outs spurred by the need to deliver bandwidth-intensive services like VoIP. There's also "feverishly fast" growth in mobile data traffic and a move from ATM networks to IP nets. The industry bought $510 million in IP core routers in the first quarter of this year.

For more information on the carrier infrastructure market:
- read this article in VoIP Magazine