
Nortel Propels Softswitch and Media Gateway Market in Fourth Quarter 2005
Dell'Oro Group Increases 2006 Forecast for Carrier IP Telephony Market
Redwood Shores, Calif. – February 21, 2006
– According to a recently published report by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market
information about the networking and telecommunications industries, the Carrier IP Telephony
market grew 64 percent year over year in the fourth quarter of 2005. Nortel was the largest
contributor to the market's growth during the quarter, followed by Alcatel and Italtel.
Dell’Oro Group raised its 2006 forecast for Carrier IP Telephony market sales by approximately
10 percent, to over $3.0 billion, as the number of customers deploying IP Telephony is expanding.
"Telecom service providers worldwide
are following Asia's lead in preparing their networks for Voice over
IP, and they are clearly picking up the pace of deployment," said Steve
Raab, Director IP Telephony Research at Dell’Oro Group. "The most notable
acceleration has come from European service providers. They have stimulated
tremendous demand for broadband access over the past year or two, and
now they are preparing for the next step of Voice-over-Broadband," added
Raab.
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