According to research company Dell’Oro Group, carriers’ transition to VoIP may not begin seriously and in full flow at least until 2010. However, spending on VoIP kits will roughly double over the next five years.



What’s more, network equipment providers sold about 2.4 billion dollars worth of VoIP infrastructure products in 2005 that is expected to swell to USD 4.7 billion by 2010!



On the kits the company took into account are:



a) Softswitches (servers that switch packet-based calls),

b) Media gateways (devices that translate between packet and circuit-switched networks) and

c) Products that combine those elements.





It did not include VoIP elements built into other products such as multi-service switches. Only those gear developed exclusively for VoIP were taken into account.



I will write shortly on the coming days on how small innovations in VoIP like the VoIP phone-cum-mouse or the VoIP keyboards are actually contributing to the growth of VoIP in terms of popularity amongst the masses. So stay tuned.



Source: Techworld