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Total worldwide sales
revenue for signaling gateways, media gateways, media servers, and session
border controllers is expected to increase at a compounded rate of nearly
four percent over the next five years, says a new market study from
Insight Research. This specialized equipment enables traditional phone
networks to interconnect to and move data across the Internet. During
2005, nearly $2.2 billion worth of gateway technology was sold in global
markets; by 2010, sales of new gateway gear will increase to $2.6 billion
annually, according this industry research study.
Insight’s
newly-released market analysis report,
SIP, SS7 and
Gateways: A Transaction View of Next-Gen Operations 2005-2010,
reveals that while global gateway sales will increase at a modest rate of
just under four percent over the forecast period, SIP gateways, wireless
gateways, and hybrid-fiber coax gateways will buck the trend and are
expected to exhibit sales revenue growth rates in excess of 30 percent
over the forecast period.
The study examines 11
types of gateways, as well as session border controllers and media
servers, all of which are driven by similar market demand. The study
forecasts unit demand and revenue by geographic region for SIP gateways,
enterprise gateways, enhanced services gateways, wireless gateways,
Internet telephony gateways, media gateways, hybrid fiber coax gateways,
least cost gateways, CO trunk gateways, GR-303 gateways, and signal
gateways. Worldwide unit shipments and revenues for session border
controllers and media servers are also provided by geographic region.
“In the current
investment climate, it is apparent that NGN deployment cycles are going to
be pushed out several years, which means the gateway approach is a viable
means to ‘sweat’ additional Internet-related service revenues from the
PSTN,” says Robert Rosenberg, Insight’s president. “While unit shipments
of gateways will increase at a healthy rate over the forecast period,
worldwide sales revenue is showing only modest growth as competition beats
down prices and IMS-compliant gear begins to grab a foothold by
simplifying interoperability requirements and thereby reducing the need
for gateways,” Rosenberg concludes.
A free report excerpt, table of contents, and ordering information are
available online at
http://www.insight-corp.com/reports/SIPSS7.asp
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