4. World Enterprise IP Telephony Endpoint Market Grew to $2.68 Billion
in 2008, Finds Frost & Sullivan
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan
(http://www.conferencing.frost.com), World Enterprise IP Telephony
Endpoint Markets, finds that the market earned revenues of over
$2.68 billion in 2008. The world enterprise IP desktop phone market
continued to grow in 2008, generating $2.57 billion in total revenues.
Though steady revenue decline is expected until 2010, the market is
expected to gradually recover by 2011 and continue with a healthy
growth pattern until the end of the forecast period in 2015.
5. Trends in Europe
At year-end 2006, 15.6 million consumer voice-
over-IP (VoIP) lines were in service in Europe,
up from 6.5 million in 2005.
6. At the end of 2004, only 1.8 million VoIP lines were in
service across Europe, equivalent to just over 1 percent of
households. By the end of 2005, VoIP subscribers had
grown to 6.5 million lines, accounting for 4 percent of
households. At the end of 2006, 15.6 million European
consumers subscribed to VoIP services, equivalent to 11
percent of households. By mid-year 2007, approximately
22 million households in Europe had VoIP telephone
service.
Annual revenues from consumer VoIP services were €583
million in 2005, and €1.5 billion in 2006. Given current
growth patterns, VoIP revenues should top €2.8 billion in
2007.
11. The number of VoIP subscribers
soared from 6.5 million in mid-
2006 to 11.8 million in mid-2007—
equivalent to 10 percent of U.S.
households. VoIP service revenues
totaled $2.6 billion in 2006 and are
on track to reach $4.9 billion in
2007.
12. major cable companies (often called “multiple system operators,” or MSOs)
network-independent service providers (sometimes also described as “enhanced service
providers,” or ESPs).
13.
14. Network-independent service providers,
such as Vonage, were the pioneers of the
consumer VoIP market. Vonage launched
its consumer VoIP service in April 2002,
followed by 8x8 in November 2002. At
mid-year 2007, network-independent
service providers had 3.1 million
subscribers and were on track to
generate over $1 billion in revenues in
2007.
17. Voice Network Characteristics
• Reliability:
• Five nines of reliability
• 2 hours of downtime in a period of 40 years of
service:
• 2/350,400 hour = 0.00000571
• Network availability = 1- 0.00000571=
0.99999429
• 99.999429%
