Research and Markets announces the addition of "SIP Enabled Servers and IP PBX Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014" to their offering.

SIP based IP PBX markets are poised for significant growth as people move to purchase IP based servers for communications. Significant pent up demand will be converted to sales as systems are put on the market that permit implementation of voice over IP that works. Voice over IP systems purchases have been postponed for ten years or more, waiting for technology that works. VoIP technology finally works.

Personal IP communications is the future of real-time communications for the individual user. This market segment is categorized into three areas including Web-based services, portals, and mobile thin-clients. Together, IDC forecasts these categories will represent more than $5 billion in annual spending in 2012.

At the forefront of the evolution of "voice as an application" are new Web services platforms from vendors like REBTEL or iotum. Voice is becoming embedded in sites, applications, and other services, sometimes by third party developers but also by the original provider. Web-based personal IP communication comes in many shapes and sizes, ranging from widgets and applications for social networking sites, to Web sites that initiate the bridging of calls.

The number of U.S. businesses using an Internet telephony line will surpass 5 million by the end of the decade and hit 7.8 million by the end of 2012, according to new projections from Pike & Fischer's Broadband Advisory Services

In addition, providers of VoIP services will see revenues from business customers triple over the next five years to hit more than $6 billion, P&F says in the new report, VoIP in the Business World: Market Forecast and Analysis.

Businesses are increasingly attracted to VoIP services because of the operational efficiencies and cost savings. The biggest part of the market will be large enterprises, which tend to have in-house information technology experts to manage telecommunications upgrades, the Silver Spring-based market research firm says. Incumbent telephone companies such as AT&T and Verizon are likely to retain the biggest share of these customers, the report says.

As has been the underlying characteristic of VoIP industry over the last 7 years, the growth pattern refuses to change direction. The 9th annual VoIP industry update published by iLocus reveals a yearly increase of 67% in VoIP access server licenses shipped worldwide, and a 35% increase in VoIP traffic.

There is no evidence yet of a long term slowdown in carrier spending. It seems that despite the risk of recession (especially in the US) carriers have no choice. They have to build out the IP infrastructure if they are to remain relevant.

The new investment cycle that started in 2004 to do with access part of carrier networks continues into 2008 and is likely to remain so through to 2009. That can be said with confidence in case of European countries at least. On a global level, even if the investment slows down due to financial issues, the carriers have to spend nonetheless. They have little choice, it seems. Due to the losses in landlines, wireline operators are expanding into mobile and mobile operators on the other hand are looking to leverage fixed broadband networks for voice offload or over-the-top services. The underlying technology that lets them both achieve those objectives tends to be VoIP.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of "Triple Play: Building the converged network for IP, VoIP and IPTV" to their offering. “Triple Play” is a combination of Internet access, voice communication, and entertainment services such as IP television and video on demand.

The erosion of the traditional voice service, together with the ever-increasing competition between companies, is pushing the telecommunications industry towards a major shift in its business models. Customers want more services in a more flexible way. Today, this shift can only be carried out by offering converged services built around the Internet Protocol (IP). Triple Play, a bundle of voice, video, and data services for residential customers, is the basis of this new strategy.

Interop attendees signaled strong interest in VoIP, virtualization, and WAN optimization technologies, according to a study released by Network Instruments and NetQoS. The on-site survey of 117 network engineers and IT executives found:

• When asked which emerging technologies present the greatest monitoring challenges, most respondents (38 percent) identified virtualization, while 24 percent were concerned with Unified Communications, followed by MPLS (14 percent).
• More than 50 percent of respondents indicated that their organizations have deployed some virtualization technologies. This will increase to 79 percent within 12 months and 82 percent in two years. More than 41 percent of organizations do not currently run virtualization, and nine percent were not sure what percentage of their organization’s applications, if any, run on virtual machines.
• VoIP adoption remains strong with 67 percent of organizations having implemented the technology on their network. Most respondents have implemented Cisco VoIP solutions, followed by Avaya and Microsoft. Looking to future VoIP rollouts, seven percent of organizations expect to implement within 12 months, and an additional three percent will wait more than a year.
• 42 percent have implemented or plan to implement a WAN optimization technology within 12 months, while 44 percent had no plans to implement.
• When asked about topologies, 69 percent were interested in monitoring LAN, 60 percent in WAN, 56 percent in wireless, 48 percent in gigabit, and 23 percent in 10 Gigabit.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of VoIP: Wireless, P2P and New Enterprise Voice over IP to their offering. VoIP is revolutionizing the way people communicate – both in the corporate world and in personal life. The enormous success of VoIP has led to its adoption in a wide range of networking technologies. Each network technology has its unique features and poses distinct challenges for the performance of VoIP.

VoIP: Wireless, P2P and New Enterprise Voice over IP describes the issues arising in the deployment of VoIP in an emerging heterogeneous network environment. Along with a brief overview of the concepts, protocols, algorithms, and equipment involved in realizing VoIP, this book focuses on two areas: quality and performance issues in deploying VoIP over various network settings, and the new mechanisms and protocols in these emerging networks to assist the deployment of VoIP.

CORE NEWS FACTS

• In March 2008, Aberdeen Group surveyed 159 organizations to identify best practices for managing Voice-over-IP performance.
• Three key performance criteria were used to distinguish best-in-class companies: 1) average improvement in VoIP service quality; 2) average improvement in VoIP service availability; 3) improvements in ability to troubleshoot issues with VoIP performance in a timely manner.
• Best-in-class organizations reported 93% improvement in VoIP service quality; 95 percent average improvement in VoIP service availability; all improved their ability to troubleshoot VoIP performance issues expeditiously.

"Benchmarking VoIP Performance Management," a new benchmark report by Aberdeen Group found that as compared to Laggards, Best-in-Class organizations are nearly four times more likely to reduce call failure rate. Aberdeen's research also revealed that on average, 48% of end-points have been IP enabled with 39% of organizations reporting that 75% or more of their end-points have been IP enabled.

Organizations have already spent an average of $1.6 million for VoIP deployments, and in order to get optimal return on these investments they need to ensure that they have the right tools in place for managing VoIP performance. Best-in-Class organizations are nearly twice as likely as all other organizations to have the ability to asses the impact of other business applications on VoIP performance. The report also shows that Best-in-Class organizations are twice as likely as Laggards to deploy tools for troubleshooting call failures. This contributed to Best-in-Class organizations being five times more likely to reduce the number of end-user complaints due to issues with VoIP performance as compared to Laggards.

College graduates beginning their careers this spring will find the job market offering a range of unique and highly-rewarding employment opportunities, according to industry research firm IBISWorld. IBISWorld released its top 10 industry picks offering the fastest growing number of jobs and growth in wages. But to find these jobs, graduates will need to do their research.

"Rather than targeting the traditionally popular or "sexy" industries, jobseekers should investigate the industries forecast for strong employment growth, and get ahead of the pack by targeting companies in those sectors now," said George Van Horn, a senior analyst with IBISWorld. "Research really is the key. Last year's top performing industries could be next year's slow movers, so knowledge is certainly power in today's fiercely competitive and ever changing job market. We believe there are 10 stand-out industries that every graduate should investigate this year with VoIP on top of the list."