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Study: SMBs to spend $125 billion on advanced technology in 2011

Small- and medium-sized businesses are still facing challenging economic times and are still struggling to gain access to credit, but they've bounced back significantly since the low point of the recession and are beginning to be more aggressive in their acquisition of new technology.

In fact, a recent study shows that IT spending growth by SMBs has returned more rapidly than expected, since the recession officially ended in 2009. The study also forecasts that emerging technologies will spur them to spend $125 billion in 2011, outside the normal spending patterns established in the past.
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SMBs increasingly using the cloud, hosted UC

A new study says that as many as 50 percent of all SMB employees work outside the office at some point,
with 25 percent being off-site at any give time. - read more

 

VoIP services market climbs to $50 billion -  April 1, 2011 - Infonetics Research

  • The jump in SIP and UC (Unified Communications) revenue is significant, signaling that businesses are increasingly adopting IP-based voice services. The research firm forecasts that the IP PBX market will "more than double" by 2015.

  • The VoIP service market weathered the economic turmoil of the last couple of years, and, with increasing customer adoption, reached $49.8 billion in 2010 (compared to $34.8 billion in 2008).

  • A highlight for 2010, Infonetics said, was the 143 percent revenue growth in SIP trunking.

  • Managed IP PBX business VoIP service revenue is expected to more than double from 2010 to 2015.

  • Infonetics Research forecasts the combined business and residential/SOHO VoIP services market to grow to $74.5 billion in 2015.


Report: 50% of medium-sized businesses see VoIP as mission critical

December 9, 2010

  • According to AMI-Partners, the SMB world seems to be planning for VoIP growth. According to the report, over 30 percent of small businesses (1 - 99 employees) and 50 percent of medium businesses (100-999 employees) claim VoIP will become critical to their business.

  • The AMI 2010 VoIP Update also found that with the recent recession, SMBs put IT decisions on the back burner, but the migration of voice and data is continuing and there is still large potential for the IP communications market to penetrate the SMB community.


In-Stat Research: Small office spending on IP telephony to grow 83%

July 25, 2011

  • Small business and work-at-home businesses will continue to be a growth engine for broadband telephony services, a new study says, with a forecast of 83 percent growth between 2010 and 2015.

  • The research, part of In-Stat's Business IP/VoIP Spending Forecasts and Segmentation service, also predicts application-based VoIP will increase over 50 percent from 2010-2015, with mid-sized business (100 to 999 employees) spending seeing the greatest growth as a segment.

 

The Death of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)

“It’s the end of the world as we know it”

With all of the breaking news about Google (News - Alert) (News - Alert)+ vs. Facebook, hacker mischief around the world, Microsoft (News - Alert) putting Office in the Cloud, etc., you probably missed what should have been and hopefully will be a very huge story. I will catch you up.

The Technical Advisory Council (TAC) to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC (News - Alert) (News - Alert)) recommended in a June 29 presentation to the FCC commissioners that they set a “date certain” for the sunset of the Public Switch Telephone Network (PSTN). As TAC member (industry innovator and commentator) Tom Evslin pointed out in his recent blog on the matter, “There needs to be a planned transition to avoid stranding people without voice communications.” He passionately continued that regardless of your views on regulation vs. competition, “Government needs to be part of that plan at the very least because the transition will be driven by when government subsidies to the PSTN end.”- read more

Source: TMCnet

 

Business VoIP service revenue up 8% in 1H10

CAMPBELL, California, September 30, 2010—Market research firm Infonetics Research (http://twitter.com/infonetics) released its updated 2010 VoIP and Unified Communication Services and Subscribers market share and forecast report, which now includes an IP Centrex/UC Provider Tracker highlighting deployments by provider, region, service, and platform. As part of the service, Infonetics earlier this year released scorecards for the top IP Centrex and IP connectivity service providers via its North America and EMEA VoIP Service Provider Leadership Matrix reports. - read more

Source: Infonetics Research

 

In-Stat: Business and Consumer IP Phone Shipments to Exceed 40 Million in 2015

With the worldwide sales of IP phones picking up, it’s safe to say that there is a movement gravitating toward IP telephony systems (beginning in 2010). Corded IP phones remain the standard, and will continue to dominate the enterprise IP phone market throughout the business market.

A New In-Stat (News - Alert) (www.in-stat) research forecasts suggest that IP phone shipments, for business and consumer, will exceed 40 million units in 2015. - read more

Source: TMCnet

 

Is VoIP Being Widely Adopted?

  • According to the latest study by AMI Partners Inc., North American small to-medium businesses’ hosted VoIP market spending will cross $1.56 billion by 2010.

  • In-Stat predicts that two-thirds of US businesses will have some form of VoIP service by 2011.

  • Market projected to exceed $8B by 2013 and growing at a CAGR of over 27% (According to Frost and Sullivan)

  • In the first half of 2009, VOIP services brought in nearly $21 billion in revenue, with both residential and business services looking healthy and poised for even more growth for the second half of the year, according to a report by market research firm Infonetics Research. But the current sweet spot, at least in North America, is small businesses with fewer than 100 employees. In the first half of the year (2009), roughly two thirds of all VoIP services sold went to small businesses.

 

"VoIP Adoption Still Growing in Consumer and Business Markets"

VoIP service is not necessarily new, but market information indicates that its penetration in the field will allow it to remain relevant for some time to come, especially in a consumer capacity.  The figures from industry analysts Point Topic, seem to reiterate the fact service providers, businesses and consumers are using VoIP systems at an ever increasing rate. - read more
Source: TNCI

 

The Big Picture

Most companies think of VoIP as only a way to lower their phone bills. And while that is an important aspect of this service, it is only one of many.

We always suggest that a potential customer look at the big picture: Increase productivity, enhance inter-office communication, lower overhead, allow staff to work from home offices without loss of oversight, accountability and connectivity, increase revenue by improving customer communications, advanced applications...and of course lower phone bills.- read more

 

UC Market to Increase Thanks to Wireless and SIP Trunking

With the widespread popularity of Voice over IP technologies today, and as more and more users are moving to unified communications, or “UC,” the ability to save on costs and increase productivity have become a key driver to adoption.- read more

 

AT&T Asks FCC To Phase Out Landlines In Move To VoIP

In response to the FCC's request for public comment about the proposed move from regular landlines (PSTN) to an all IP network, AT&T has supported the move with its own plan and timeline for withdrawal from the PSTN. In its response AT&T also addresses its desire to see changes to regulatory policies around.- read more

 

VoIP for iPhone is here!

A recent surge of iPhone SIP client applications has opened up the world of VoIP for the millions of iPhone users worldwide. Lucky for users, iPhone client applications that allow for.- read more

 

What is VoIP?

Voice over Internet Protocol or VoIP, is basically the process of sending voice through internet protocol, making it possible for a consumer to make phone calls at cheaper price. VoIP can be used as a complete replacement for phone lines at a location, or as supplementary trunking for additional capacity or lower cost for outbound long distance and inbound toll free.- read more