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May 2003 - Despite an overall down economy and
serious drops in almost every segment of high
tech, LAN Telephony (enterprise VoIP) continued
its stellar growth in 2002, with shipments of
60% more than the previous year. High-tech market
research firm In-Stat/MDR (www.instat.com)
reports that this market is poised to continue
its forward march, and 2003 will be the year when
IP station shipments first exceed traditional
PBX stations.
This
market's size is tied closely to two things; the
size of the enterprise voice market and the percent
of enterprise voice solutions that migrate to
IP. While the overall enterprise voice market
is down, the percent of migrations to LAN Telephony
is up, resulting in growth, and while few companies
are scrapping perfectly good PBXs in favor of
an IP system, an increasing number are choosing
IP instead of a traditional PBX.
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In-Stat/MDR
has also found that:
- In
2001, 23.7% of enterprise telephone stations sold
in the US were IP based, while in 2002 that number
jumped to 46.3%. This stellar growth was predicated
by improved products, increased numbers of traditional
vendors offering IP, and a movement in the buying
community towards future-proofing their networks.
- Cisco
Systems remains the 500 pound gorilla in the enterprise
VoIP space (as well as the enterprise networking market)
and there is no sign that will change in the near
future. Cisco's sales constitute over 1/3 of the total
market, with their closest competitor barely halving
that amount.
- Although
the enterprise telephone system market was down by
18%, in 2002 from 2001, the IP PBX market continued
to grow. Therefore, IP PBX is garnering a larger piece
of a shrinking pie and every year an increasing percentage
of the voice systems that are sold are IP. The IP
PBX will continue to have success, particularly if
the economy improves and the total number of enterprise
voice system sales increases.
This
Market Alert is drawn from the In-Stat/MDR report, "LAN
Telephony 2003: IP or Nothing", which looks at the
overall LAN Telephony market, specific verticals, technology
changes, and market drivers. It includes a profile on
the products and strategy of all of the major vendors,
as well as market shares. It then forecasts revenues
the LAN Telephony market by lines, systems, and revenues,
through 2007.
SOURCE
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