VoIP Set To Soar in 2005 and Beyond

July 27, 2004 - analysts predicted that large-scale migration among service providers to Voice over IP (VoIP) in a few years - but it appeared that it actually may to be done. Or what happens in 1896, at least.

According to the new market research data from the market research firm Infonetics Research specialist , 2005, the year of service providers to embrace VoIP technology.

Each year, the company Infonetics released a report ( "Service providers plan next generation voice"), according to a survey , the global service provider. In the past years, the company said Infonetics Research, said that operators warm Internet telephony things have changed, in 2004, However, and 32 in North America, Europe, the Asia-Pacific region and service providers interviewed, Infonetics companies, the majority to confirm this movement its existing circuit-switched voice networks to packet networks is a "serious strategic element" in its long-term network planning.

"Due to various reasons, including equipment maturity, service providers finally moved by the example of packet communications, said:" The company Infonetics analyst Kevin Mitchell said in a statement.

Mitchell said, VoIP is beginning to see an uptake in excess of bleeding edge of adoption: "It is no longer just the experts or VoIP pioneers, but all types carriers in all regions of the world have adopted VoIP technology use it to set up a new set of services.

Just how much of the next generation of VoIP uptake is we are talking about? Worldwide, service providers 1.2 billion US dollars investment in the next generation voice equipment in 2003, Infonetics companies.

What is more important is that Mitchell predicted that operators investment in the next generation voice equipment will grow to 4.8 billion US dollars to 2007 .

So what driving uptake of VoIP carriers? Access to new VoIP-shelf applications and services, as the first, which was rated as highly valued 72% of the respondents. In other places, Infonetics found that the MPLS is the most popular means to provide the quality of service / vocational guidance, for the next generation voice network, and improvement works support growth of nearly 30 percent over last year alone - 4% from 5 to 84 per cent in 2005. Today, the company Infonetics researchers say, is that the SIP " increasingly pervasive, will be crucial, in order for the popular IP Multimedia services. "Finally, 94% of the operators will provide hosted IP voice solutions for the residential and commercial markets, by 2005 - a nearly 40 per cent, from 2004 (56 per cent).

- Stephen swoyer