CAMPBELL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Market research firm Infonetics Research today released excerpts from its Enterprise Session Border Controllers (eSBCs) market size and forecast report.
ANALYST NOTE
“The market for enterprise session border controllers jumped 60% in 2011 and will grow significantly over the coming years as the adoption of SIP trunking continues to expand,” expects Diane Myers, directing analyst for VoIP and IMS at Infonetics Research. “The enterprise SBC market is a sweet spot in the enterprise market because they fill a growing need for security, interoperability, and network border traversal.”
ENTERPRISE SBC MARKET HIGHLIGHTS
- SIP trunks – adoption of which is the primary driver for enterprise SBCs sales — grew 88% in 2011 over the previous year
- Infonetics Research forecasts the global enterprise SBC market to grow to $527 million in 2016
- SBCs, among other things, are the next generation of border elements, and will eventually replace (TDM to) VoIP gateways used today
- North America makes up the majority of the eSBC market, though its share of global eSBC revenue will decline to a smaller majority as other regions increase SIP trunk adoption
- Acme Packet is the enterprise SBC market leader, with 34% worldwide revenue share in 2011, followed by Cisco
ENTERPRISE SBC REPORT SYNOPSIS
Infonetics’ biannual Enterprise SBC report provides worldwide and regional market size, analysis, and forecasts through 2016 for enterprise SBC revenue and sessions by system and business size in North America, Asia Pacific, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), and Central and Latin America. The report includes top takeaways for the market, market drivers and challenges, and vendor market share and analysis. Companies tracked: Acme Packet, Adtran, AudioCodes, Avaya, Cisco, Dialogic, Edgewater, GENBAND, Ingate, NET, ONEAccess, Siemens Enterprise, and Sonus.
