Infonetics: The bleeding has stopped, trends point to hosted and biz VoIP

Getting a bit meta, Infonetics released a report on its reports! But rather than rehashing all the stuff they've been saying, they've taken their most recent reports on the VoIP markets and tried to come up with some trends reflected across all their findings. One of their main findings? The economic hurt is over and VoIP is back in business.

Specifically VoIP is back for business as one of the major trends Infonetics has picked up on is the uptick in business VoIP sales. While residential VoIP has remained stable, business VoIP saw some growth at the end of 2009 and into 2010. In addition, service providers were reporting that interest in hosted VoIP was up across all business classes. The research firm expects business VoIP to make up a third of the VoIP service revenue by 2014. If that's not exciting enough for you, they also predict the unified communications (UC) market will top $1 billion by 2013.

"The enterprise telephony market was hit hard in 2009 due to the recession, but based on the latest quarterly shipment figures and results from our March 2010 survey of North American enterprises about IP PBX spending, it appears that the bleeding has stopped and 2010 promises to be a better year, good news for vendors and service providers alike," notes Matthias Machowinski, directing analyst for enterprise voice and data at Infonetics Research in the release.

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