Light Reading Insider Releases New Enterprise VOIP Report
May 13 2004 - 11:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Light Reading Insider Releases New Enterprise VOIP Report NEW YORK,
May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The cost of an enterprise IP PBX phone
system ranges from $500 to $900 per user, but the overall price
escalates rapidly when a LAN upgrade is required, according to a
new report from Light Reading (http://www.lightreading.com/).
"VOIP: The Enterprise Options," published by the subscription
research service Light Reading Insider
(http://www.lightreading.com/insider), evaluates the addressable
market for CPE-based and hosted services, as well as the likely
takeup rates as vendors and service providers court the enterprise
market. "Product improvements and price declines have raised the
appeal of VOIP," says the report's author, Daro Clark, "but the
market's growth will remain gradual as companies take a piecemeal
approach to VOIP, enabling their business on an incremental basis."
The report analyzes the latest enterprise VOIP products alongside
an investigation of how RBOCs and other service providers are
bolstering their lucrative telephony revenues with managed IP PBX
and IP Centrex services. Key findings include: -- IP PBX systems
have rejuvenated the enterprise telephony market in recent years,
but enterprises looking to deploy VOIP are now faced with an
abundance of hosted service alternatives. -- LAN performance issues
are holding the market back. Vendors are forming LAN and IP PBX
partnerships to combat Cisco's single-sourced advantage. -- Private
hosted-VOIP vendors, such as Sylantro and BroadSoft, are making
major inroads into large carrier networks and have great products
for the SMB market. -- Service providers report that hosted
solutions can lower the total cost of ownership by up to 20
percent, but require the customer to relinquish control -- a trait
not associated with enterprise customers. -- Traditional Centrex
customers have a shorter product cycle and thus present a more
immediate addressable market than PBX customers, who will only
renew PBXs every seven to ten years. Private vendors analyzed in
this report include: BroadSoft Inc.; Mitel Networks Corp.;
NetCentrex SA; Sylantro Systems Corp.; and VocalData Inc. Public
vendors analyzed in this report include: Alcatel SA (NYSE:ALA);
Avaya Inc. (NYSE:AV); Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO); NEC Corp.
(NASDAQ: NIPNY); Nortel Networks Ltd. (NYSE/Toronto: NT); Siemens
AG (NYSE: SI; Frankfurt: SIE); and 3Com Corp. (NASDAQ:COMS). Public
service providers analyzed in this report include: AT&T Corp.
(NYSE:T); BellSouth Corp. (NYSE:BLS); BT Group PLC (NYSE:BTY); MCI
Inc. (NASDAQ:WCOEQNASDAQ:MCWEQ); Qwest Communications Inc.
(NYSE:Q); SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC); Sprint Corp.
(NYSE:FON); and Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ). The report
is available as part of an annual subscription to the monthly Light
Reading Insider, which is priced at $1,350. The subscription
includes 12 monthly reports covering the hottest wireline equipment
and services markets. Individual reports are available for $900. To
subscribe, or to get more information, please visit:
http://www.lightreading.com/insider. Sales contact: Dave Williams
Sales Director Light Reading Insider 415-293-8470 DATASOURCE: Light
Reading Insider CONTACT: Sales - Dave Williams, Sales Director,
Light Reading Insider, +1-415-293-8470, Web site:
http://www.lightreading.com/
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