The total service provider VoIP equipment market, including trunk media gateways, SBCs, media servers, softswitches, and voice application servers, decreased 9% from 2Q10 to 3Q10, to $511 million, according to Infonetics Research. While revenue is down for the quarter, shipments for almost all segments in the market are up sequentially.

Empirix has expanded its flagship Hammer XMS technology to provide end-to-end network monitoring for mobile core architectures. For mobile operators transitioning to all IP LTE networks, and traditional wire line operators or MSOs that are adding mobile service offerings, Hammer XMS "helps lower the cost of deploying and maintaining multi-protocol network architectures and ensures a more consistent customer experience," as the company claims.

A new Infonetics report claims the worldwide service provider Voice over IP equipment revenue totaled $595 million in Q3 09, which was only a slight decline from the last quarter.

Infonetics Research releases a quarterly report on service providers VoIP equipment and subscribers as well as IMS equipment and subscribers forecasts. Q3 saw the VoIP equipment market holding pretty strong as the report claims that the economic downturn spurred service providers to migrate to IP communications. Some interesting things to note were Cisco and Alcatel-Lucent posting double-digit percent increases in their media gateway revenue for Q3 and Nokia Siemens Networks posting 100% growth in softswitch sales for the same quarter.

On the IMS front worldwide revenue for core IMS equipment market declined 39 percent sequentially in Q3. But, the report claims that IMS equipment is experiencing healthy growth because of the continued adoption of VoIP services worldwide and service providers' migration of VoIP services to IMS networks. Ericsson may still be the leader in the IMS market overall, but Infonetics claims that it's seeing serious competition from Huawei, Nokia Siemens Networks and Alcatel-Lucent. Back in June, Infonetics reported that the global IMS market is expected to grow at a rapid pace for the next five years, and the predicted revenues will grow from around $200 million in 2008 to more than $2.5 billion in 2013. In this new report, they dialed down their assumptions saying they expect it to grow to $1.6 billion by 2013.

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Acme Packet has been selected by two European operators to provide them with IMS-based services.
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VoIP equipment purchases are decreasing at the expense of spending on the deployment of IMS (IP multimedia subsystem) technology, according to Infonetics Research.
Worldwide sales of IMS equipment, including HSS (home subscriber servers), CSCF servers, and voice application servers, are forecast to jump 74 per cent in 2009 over 2008.

The worldwide market for carrier VoIP equipment has stalled after a pro-longed period of double-digit annual revenue growth that began in 2002.
This led to the market contracting for the first time ever in 2008, with a drop in revenue of 6 per cent, according to Infonetics Research.