Session Border Controllers Market Return Carrier VoIP Equipment to Growth

SBCs and media servers will be the main growth engines of the carrier VoIP equipment market for 2010, predicts Diane Myers, directing analyst for service provider VoIP and IMS at Infonetics Research.

Myers adds that, “The IMS market also is experiencing strong and healthy growth, driven by the continued adoption of fixed-line VoIP services and key operators in Asia Pacific and EMEA that are beginning their fixed-line network transformation utilizing IMS.”

The total service provider VoIP equipment market

The total service provider VoIP equipment market, including trunk media gateways, SBCs, media servers, softswitches, and voice application servers, increased to $564.7 million in 2Q10, up 5.3 percent from the previous quarter.

Significant drivers for the IMS market over the long-term include Long Term Evolution (LTE (News - Alert)) deployments and the push for enhanced mobile services, including mobile instant messaging (IM), video sharing, and Rich Communications Suite (RCS).