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Time Warner widens VoIP service reach
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February 11, 2005 |
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Called
Digital Phone, the service uses Voice
over Internet Protocol technology, known
as VoIP, which allows voice calls to be
digitized and sent over high-speed
Internet connections or cable lines, as
opposed to routing calls over the
traditional circuit-based phone lines.
Time Warner launched the service last
June .
Time Warner VoIP Service >> |
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Fixed voice revenues shrink as VoIP
swells -
February 10, 2005 |
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Traditional voice telephony is on the
decline while IP services, favoured by
businesses for productivity gains, are
poised to surpass it.Revenues for
fixed-voice services in Europe are set
to drop three per cent annually, from
$108bn in 2003 to $95bn in 2008,
according to market researcher IDC.
Fixed Voice Losing to VoIP Rapidly
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Sphere Delivers Enterprise Telecom API
- February 7, 2005 |
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Sphere
Communications is demonstrating a
complete, operational enterprise
telecommunications system on the expo
show floor in booth #531. Sphericall
software is being shown interoperating
with a range of endpoints and gateways
such as Cisco, Polycom and Sayson IP
Telephones; AudioCodes and Allied
Telesyn media gateways;
Sphere Delivers Enterprise Telecom
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NIST report urges caution with VoIP
security
- January 31, 2005 |
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A new
report from the National Institute of
Standards and Technology urges federal
agencies and other organizations to take
care in switching to voice-over-IP
technology because of security concerns.
The 99-page NIST report, “Security
Considerations for Voice over IP
Systems,” includes nine recommendations
for IT managers to help them implement
VoIP in a secure manner.
NIST VoIP Security >> |
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Is Google Eyeing the VoIP Marketplace?
- January 25, 2005 |
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Google is
rumored to be considering a play for the
burgeoning Internet-based phone service
market. If so, it would be the latest
non traditional -- that is, non telecom
-- firm to jump in. Google reportedly is
searching for a "strategic negotiator"
to help it partner with a telecom firm.
Google VoIP Play >> |
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WiMAX Gains Traction But Needs VoIP
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January 25, 2005 |
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WiMAX is
becoming a force in the wireless access
arena, at least in parts of the world,
reports In-Stat. By 2008, worldwide
sales for WiMAX equipment will be
billions of dollars, but over half of it
will be for Customer Premise Equipment.
WiMAX, a new form of BWA, helps shift
the economics of broadband to make it
cheaper than ever to deploy.
WiMAX Needs VoIP >> |
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Mixed legacy for FCC's Powell
- January 21, 2005 |
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Powell,
appointed chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission by President
Bush in January 2001, leaves behind a
booming, substantially deregulated
marketplace that has embraced high-speed
Internet connections, wireless and voice
over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in ways
that were nearly unimaginable in the
1990s.
FCC Chairman Resigns >> |
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SPIT: VOIP's Dark Side
- January 21, 2005 |
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Spam over
Internet telephony (SPIT) may become the
latest information age nuisance as the
(VOIP) era
arrives, say industry players. While
SPIT is not a problem yet because there
are few VOIP users, the industry is
preparing for what could prove to be a
worse problem than e-mail spam, with no
real solutions in sight.
Spam over Internet Telephony - SPIT
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IBM, Airespace Join Group To Speed
Mobile VoIP Adoption
- January 21, 2005 |
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Group
members will perform interoperability
testing to speed the process of
providing VoIP that seamlessly switches
between different types of networks such
as Wi-Fi and cellular. Airespace, an
enterprise WLAN equipment vendor being
acquired by Cisco, this week joined IBM
and security vendor VeriSign as the
first three members of an alliance to
speed the availability of converged
voice-over-IP (VoIP) services.
VoIP WiFi and Cellular >> |
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Security House Warns Of VoIP Viruses
- January 18, 2005 |
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Corporate
network security specialist Mirage
Networks has issued a warning that one
of the top new targets for hackers this
year is likely to be voice over Internet
Protocol (VoIP). Although VoIP hasn’t
been a major security target so far, its
rapid adoption in the enterprise will
cause that to change, Mirage thinks.
VoIP Viruses and Security >> |
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Wi-Fi With VoIP Could Be Telephony
Alternative
- January 15, 2005 |
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Currently
emerging Wi-Fi handsets with Voice over
Internet Protocol (VoIP) capabilities
could develop into practical
alternatives to traditional cellular
communications and as cordless
phone-type replacements in consumers’
homes or in business enterprise’s Wi-Fi
networks, according to study/consulting
group ABI Research.
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MIPS Technologies and Third-Party
Developers Enable Low-Cost,
Multi-Channel Voice
- January 14, 2005 |
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MIPS
Technologies, Inc. together with D2
Technologies, HelloSoft, RADVISION and
Trinity Convergence, today announced a
low-cost solution for multi-channel VoIP
applications, including VoIP residential
gateways, IP phones, VoWLAN phones and
terminal adapters.
High Performance MIPS-based VoIP
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New Software Eases Development Of VoIP
Hardware
- January 12, 2005 |
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NComm Inc.
has launched trunk management software
that will enable voice over IP (VoIP)
equipment manufacturers to develop
products with standards-compliant T1/E1,
T3/E3, SONET/SDH and SONET APS
physical-layer interfaces.
VoIP Equipment Development Software
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US regulator promises to let VoIP bloom
- January 7, 2005 |
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Speaking
during a question and answer session at
the Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas, Michael Powell predicted that
VoIP will remain a major topic with the
FCC this year. "There will be another 50
more VoIP issues, I guarantee you," he
warned. The US telecoms regulator last
year denied several attempts by landline
telephony companies to...
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VoIP Races For The Remote Office
- January 5, 2005 |
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Most of us
believe VoIP can reduce the telephony
costs of remote branch offices. What's
harder to determine is which kind of
VoIP we're talking about. Is this the
VoIP that's built around a remote
gateway? The VoIP that involves only IP
phones in the branch office? Or is it a
combination of both?
VoIP Remote Office >> |
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States battle FCC Internet phone ruling
- January 4, 2005 |
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Minnesota
utility regulators will try to overturn
a recent federal decision barring states
from imposing many of their
telecommunications regulations on
Internet phone providers, a sign states
haven't backed down from their fight to
lord over this new, cheaper breed of
phone service.
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Appeals Court Rules VoIP Can't Be
Regulated
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December 29, 2004 |
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The
efforts of VoIP providers to keep
individual states from regulating their
services received another boost Tuesday,
when an appeals court agreed with a
lower court decision that ruled VoIP is
a data service and, as such, can't be
regulated by states.
Appeals Court VoIP >> |
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World Renowned VoIP Thought Leader Jeff
Pulver Offers IP Communications
Predictions for 2005
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December 20, 2004 |
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VoIP
pioneer Jeff Pulver, who is responsible
for creating the industry standard Voice
on the Net (VON) events and is known as
the "voice" of IP Communications, has
announced a number of predictions for
what will happen to the VoIP industry in
the year ahead.
VoIP in 2005 >> |
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Three Ways to Prepare the Call Center for VoIP
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December 20, 2004 |
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When any new telecommunications
service is launched, often the hardest hit area of a
telecommunications service provider's business is the call
center. Call center operators are on the front lines,
answering everything from billing inquiries to technical
problem questions, just minutes after a new service is
launched.
VoIP
Call Centers >> |
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VoIP Adoption Remains Elusive, But
Growth Indicators Are Promising
- December 8, 2004 |
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Only 2% of
broadband households currently subscribe
to a VoIP service, according to
"Residential Voice-over-IP: Analysis and
Forecasts (Second Edition)," a
forthcoming industry report from Parks
Associates. This number is lower than
expected considering that at the end of
2002 nearly one-third of broadband
households expressed a high interest in
subscribing to VoIP services.
Residential Voice over IP
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Worldwide VoIP Semiconductor Market to
Take Off, Reaching $1.7 Billion by 2008,
IDC Predicts
- December 8, 2004 |
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After
years of hope, the worldwide VoIP
semiconductor market is now experiencing
significant growth as the deployment
benefits of packetized voice are being
continuously proven to service
providers, businesses, and consumers.
Accelerated adoption across all system
segments will enable the market to reach
$1.7 billion by 2008...
VoIP
Semiconductor Market
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Over 5m VoIP subscribers worldwide -
report
- December 7, 2004 |
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There were
over 5m VoIP subscribers worldwide by
the middle of 2004, with the majority of
customers shared by a half-dozen or so
operators, according to figures from
broadband research firm Point Topic.
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SBC VoIP fee
furor draws eyes to BellSouth program
- November 29, 2004 |
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While
local phone giant SBC drew considerable
fire last week for a service offering to
Internet telephony providers, fellow
carrier BellSouth has been selling
similar services for more than a year
without any protest--at least before the
SBC furor.
SBC
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VoIP
connects on far more than cost now
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November 28, 2004 |
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Voice-over-Internet-Protocol, or VoIP,
technology had been, like many things
technological, overly hyped during the
late 1990s. Truly, VoIP's only advantage
over regular phone calls was that it was
really cheap, or free, for the callers.
Much has changed. Internet phone users
can now place calls from regular phones,
cordless phones or even cell phones.
VoIP Connects >> |
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VoIP Services: Models for the Provider
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November 20, 2004 |
Cable
companies, small regional telephone
companies, and emerging data-delivery
providers have the most promising
customer base for delivery of VoIP
services, but just as often are the
least prepared to actually deliver those
products.
VoIP Services: Models for the Provider
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Regulator to make concessions to VoIP
operators
- November 16, 2004 |
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The German
Regulatory Authority for
Telecommunications and Posts (RegTP)
intends to modify the existing rules for
assigning local network telephone
numbers. It would be doing this to take
account of developments in the Voice
over IP (VoIP) area, the agency noted. Regulator
to make concessions
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VoIP Investments
Make Sense Under Bush 2
- November 16, 2004 |
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Even
before the November 2nd election, the
FCC was clearly leaning toward the view
that VoIP should be treated as an
Internet service, immune from state
control. It reinforced that view with
last week's ruling that the Minnesota
Public Utilities Commission did not have
the power to regulate VoIP provider
Vonage.
VoIP Under Bush >> |
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To the Rescue: VoIP Helps Deliver the
Vote
- November 5, 2004 |
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Florida's Miami-Dade
County, one of the most monitored
regions in the 2004 presidential
election, relied on an IP call center to
handle the huge spike in voter volume
that the county experienced on election
day. The call center used 150 Avaya IP
phones to handle calls from voters with
questions...VoIP
Helps Vote
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Telcos to be pummeled by VoIP?
- November 5, 2004 |
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Residential use of internet telephony
could increase to 13% of the fixed-line
market by 2008, threatening the core
business of traditional telcos to a
greater degree than previously expected,
according to a new report published
yesterday. The report warns telcos that
by 2008 over 50 million broadband users
in Western Europe could be using private
VoIP applications
VoIP Threatening Telcos
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VoIP drives WLAN IC growth
- October 28, 2004 |
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Consumer electronics and Voice-over-IP
telephones will be two of the biggest
application opportunities for WLAN (or
Wi-Fi) IC sales, accounting for around
half of an estimated $2.8 billion total
market size in 2008. According to a
study by technology research firm
In-Stat/MDR the WLAN IC market has grown
rapidly over the past four years
VoIP
WLAN Growth
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VoIP brings associated security risks
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October 27, 2004 |
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As local
companies gear up to take advantage of
the new legislation allowing voice over
IP, many have not fully considered the
additional security risks associated
with the converged network.
Martin May, African Director of
Enterasys Networks, looks at the
additional risk when running a converged
network.
VoIP Security Risks >> |
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Senator at VON Calls for National VOIP
Standards
- October 18, 2004 |
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Sen. John
Sununu (R-N.H), the most prominent ally
of the VOIP community on the Hill,
addressed a large crowd of true
believers Monday afternoon at the first
general keynote of the Voice on the Net
show here, laying out his motivations
behind the major telecom bill he hopes
to see written in 2005.
National VoIP Standards >> |
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Retail VoIP Services Market to Reach
$20.4 Billion by 2009, Reveals
ATLANTIC-ACM Study
- October 14, 2004 |
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According
to "VoIP Revolution 2004-2009: The
Opportunity, The Market, The Players," a
new study by leading telecommunications
research consultancy ATLANTIC-ACM, the
retail VoIP market will grow at a
Compound Annual Growth Rate of 64
percent from 2003 to 2009.
Retail
VoIP Services
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Optivon Selected as LACOM's Preferred
Provider of IP Centrex and VoIP-enabled
Services
- October 14, 2004 |
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Optivon,
an innovative provider of telephony
services, and Latin American
Communications, Inc. today
signed an agreement for LACOM to be a
reseller of Optivon's Advanced Call
Management(SM) services in Puerto Rico.
LACOM has 2,000
lines serving 235 business customers.
VoIP in
Latin America
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Inventing a new Telecom Wheel
- October 13, 2004 |
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Are we lazy or creatively challenged?
Certainly not! We are however in a tempest of disruptive
technology and economic change.
Hurricane VoIP has swept through the
telecom industry, shaking the
foundations of everything we know.
VoIP Telecom >> |
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Empirix Showcases Hammer FX-IP Release
2.0 at the Internet Telephony Conference
& EXPO
- October 5, 2004 |
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Empirix is showcasing
Release 2.0 of the Hammer FX-IP VoIP
Feature Test Platform at the Internet
Telephony Conference & EXPO, October
5-7, 2004. Hammer FX-IP 2.0 provides
users unparalleled control over IP
signaling message content and sequence.
This capability is critical for
testing protocol extensions.
Hammer FX-IP at Internet Telephony
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From Spam to SPIT
- September 28, 2004 |
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It doesn't
exist yet, but you know it's coming.
Spam on your cell phone is only a matter
of time. Once the province of small
companies like Vonage and 8x8, Voice over Internet
Telephony, or VoIP, is now spreading to
all the large telecoms.
AT&T is making a
last-gasp effort to survive by embracing
Internet telephony...
VoIP
Market Growth
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Canada Sizes Up VOIP Regulation
- September 20, 2004 |
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The
Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission on Tuesday
begins a three-day hearing on the
regulation of VOIP
services, finding itself at a crossroads
familiar to the parallel organizations
of the U.S. Federal Communications
Commission and the European Commission.
VoIP
Regulation in Canada
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Euro VOIP Gets Edgy
- September 16, 2004 |
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VOIP's just about the hottest topic around these days, but
most carriers in the EMEA region are far from offering
commercial IP telephony services to
their end users.
There are at last signs, though, that operators are preparing
to replace existing Class 5 TDM switches with IP-based access
systems.
EMEA VoIP >> |
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MPLS Product and Services at MPLS 2004
- September 10, 2004 |
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Isocore
today announced the technical program
for the MPLS 2004 International
Conference which will take place October
17- 19, 2004 in Washington, DC. MPLS
2004 is the premier event on the subject
of Multi Protocol Label Switching,
Generalized MPLS, and emerging
Internet technologies.
MPLS
Product and Services at MPLS 2004
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VoIP spam--it's coming
- September 9, 2004 |
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Voice over
Internet Protocol (VoIP) looks to be the
next big deal, a business disrupter that
could change everything in the telecoms
world. The first service
offerings have been launched and
customer take-up has been rapid. Of
course, the big selling point is a
10-fold price reduction over the
telephone offerings of the incumbents.
VoIP Spam - It's coming >> |
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Congress Hangs Up on VoIP for 2004
- September 3, 2004 |
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Federal legislation to exempt Internet
telephony from state regulations and
tariffs has all but failed in the 108th
Congress, ending an ambitious effort to
carve out and protect Internet-related
issues from looming, and highly
uncertain, telecom reform. The idea was
simple enough. Because IP-enabled
networks are inherently interstate in
nature...
VoIP in Congress >> |
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VoIP Continues Meteoric Rise
- August 27, 2004 |
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Voice-over-IP (VoIP) continues to enjoy
stellar growth and is one of the few
bright spots on the IT landscape,
solution providers said. A
research report issued this week by
Synergy Research Group concurs that VoIP
sales are on the rise. According to the
report, the worldwide enterprise IP
telephony market grew about 75 percent
in the second quarter of this year to
$728 million, up from $414.7 million the
same quarter last year.
VoIP Server Consolidation >> |
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Carrier VoIP Equipment Market Up 10%
From 1Q04, Up 21% From a Year Ago
- August 24, 2004 |
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Worldwide
next gen voice product revenue totaled
$389 million in 2Q04, up 10% from 1Q04
and up 21% year-over-year, according to
Infonetics Research's quarterly market
share and forecast service, Next Gen
Voice Products.
Carrier VoIP Equipment Market >> |
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