9 August 2006
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services are set to gain increased popularity with both consumers and businesses, according to a new survey.
This was the verdict of a recently published report by the Dell'Oro Group, a telecommunications and network market information source provider.
According to the firm's research, there will also be an increase in the sales of softswitches and media gateways between 2005 and 2010.
And while robust sales of Class 4 trunk networks drove the 2005 market for Next Generation Network equipment, the report predicts that the growth of Class 5 will spearhead the VoIP market in the future.
Steve Raab, Dell'Oro Group director of IP telephony research, said: "As service providers race to offer new VoIP services, most Next Generation Networks overlay the existing circuit switch networks.
"Initial IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks will follow a similar overlay strategy enabling service providers to offer fixed-mobile-convergence and multimedia services rapidly, while carriers defer the complete network transformation from circuit switched to a gully VoIP network to future years."
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