VoIP Industry Newsletter: Focus on Topics in SIP Trunking

Convergence, FMC Are Driving Sales
Infonetics Research reports in its report, "FMC Equipment, Phones, and Subscribers", that sales of dual mode cellular/ WiFi phones, including dual service and UMA and IMS seamless FMC client phones, hit $7.6 billion in 2Q08 and are expected to be up 16% for the year, indicating healthy growth for converged cellular/WiFi services in both enterprise and consumer market segments.

Meanwhile, the nascent FMC network element market, which launched last year and includes UMA network controllers (UNCs), voice call continuity (VCC) application servers, and multi-access convergence gateways, grew 5-fold from 2006 to 2007 and is forecast to grow another 7-fold between 2007 and 2011 worldwide.
-- Infonetics

Broadsoft Acquires Sylantro
It's official. Gaithersburg, Maryland-based BroadSoft, Inc., officially announced that it has acquired Sylantro Systems Corporation, an erstwhile competitor.

According to BroadSoft president and CEO Michael Tessler, "Sylantro has been a strong competitor of BroadSoft for 10 years. This acquisition further advances our market and innovative leadership position. Sylantro's solutions, talent and customers complement BroadSoft's business and enhance our ability to deliver compelling solutions and services to our customers."

As a result of the acquisition, BroadSoft now has development and customer operations centers in Montreal, Canada; Dallas, Texas; Bangalore, India; Sydney, Australia; Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Gaithersburg, Maryland.
--TMCNET

Global Broadband Subscriber Update
Broadband services continue to be in high demand, attracting millions of new subscribers worldwide each month. Over the past 12 months, approximately 80 million new broadband subscribers signed up for high-speed access to the Internet, the high-tech market research firm says. In terms of broadband access technologies, digital subscriber line (DSL) technologies continue to serve the greatest number of broadband subscribers worldwide, accounting for 55% of total broadband connections.
--In-Stat

Growth in Enterprise Telephony
The worldwide enterprise telephony market grew 8% between 2Q08 and 3Q08, to $2.6 billion, with pure IP PBX and hybrid PBX equipment sales up and TDM PBX equipment sales down, according to a new report from market research firm Infonetics Research.

According to Analyst Matthias Machowinski, there are a few bright spots, like the pure IP PBX segment, which is benefiting from new product launches, and IP softphones, of which we've seen a tremendous uptake in recent quarters, and which should weather the economic storm fairly well, with continued annual growth expected. The report also highlights:

• The IP PBX segment grew 9% in revenue and 7% in lines from 2Q08 to 3Q08 • Year-over-year, quarterly IP phone shipments are up 25% in 3Q08 • IP softphone shipments more than doubled from 2Q08 to 3Q08 • The TDM segment will drop below the $1 billion mark for the first time in 2008
--Infonetics

Carriers Cutting Back

UBS analyst Nikos Theodosopoulos revised his forecast for cuts in U.S. carrier spending next year from a drop of about 5 percent to a steeper decline of 10 percent or more. He said cable TV firms and wireless-related spending might not be as bad, but still would decline by at least 5 percent and 7 percent respectively. Theodosopoulos believes that AT&T specifically may cut wireline spending as much as 10 percent or more in 2009.

--UBS

Fring Spiffs up App for Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile may be an ugly stepchild of mobile platforms, but among more ambitious publishers, it hasn't been forgotten. Months after adding file transferring abilities to its Symbian version, Fring, a free VoIP communication company, is conferring this and other features to an updated versions of Fring for Windows Mobile. In addition to sending images, audio, and video files to friends on Skype, SIP, Yahoo, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, AIM, and ICQ, the latest version of Fring for Windows Mobile also packs on support for add-ons, an indicator message as contacts type out an IM response, and long-overdue privacy settings.

--CNET NEWS

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