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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Increasing Growth of VoIP Services Spurs Demand in the Session Border Controller Market
PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 22 -- Demand by businesses and
consumers for VoIP services, creates new requirements for advanced carrier
infrastructure equipment, particularly those that control and manage voice
calls, such as session border controllers (SBCs). New standards, such as IP
multimedia subsystem (IMS) which is required to support advanced
applications such as IPTV and wireless services, will spur growth in this
market. Security is also a concern for carriers and session border
controllers provide essential functions to protect a network from attack.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan
(http://www.frost.com/communicationsservices), World Session Border
Controller Markets, reveals that the market accrued revenues of $123
million in 2006 and estimates this to reach $163 million in 2013, after
first peaking at $220 million in 2009.
If you are interested in a virtual brochure, which provides
manufacturers, end users, and other industry participants with an overview
of the global session border controller markets, send an e-mail to Mireya
Castilla, Corporate Communications, at mireya.castilla@frost.com with your
full name, company name, title, telephone number, city, state, country and
e-mail address. Upon receipt of the above information, an overview will be
sent to you by e-mail.
"Carriers are increasingly turning to SBCs as they require a dedicated
device to protect critical equipment, such as softswitches and media
gateways, from denial of service (DoS) and other attacks," notes Frost &
Sullivan Strategic Analyst Shirley Hunt. "The next-generation
infrastructure market is also largely driven by carriers' focus on reducing
costs to provide high profit-margin services using IP equipment."
SBCs enable peering between IP networks thereby allowing customer
traffic to pass through many segments of a network in order to connect to
its final destination. SBCs help at these border connections to manage the
sessions for security and quality control, translate protocols if necessary
and provide seamless service connections.
These border controls are flexible enough to easily configure for
different technologies. Integration of VoIP and wireless services on a
variety of platforms following the IMS architecture is creating avenues for
market growth.
The growing need for high-speed high-capacity sessions and security
border devices is increasing the demand for stand-alone SBCs. With
multimedia and wireless traffic adding enormous loads, networks require
these devices to help handle various applications without degrading quality
of service (QoS). They can also manage the session end-to-end, including
the signaling and media QoS.
Major SBC vendors are acquiring cross-industry companies to help
complete their product lines, stimulating substantial growth of the SBC
market.
"However, standalone SBC vendors are facing competition from major
multi-function equipment vendors," explains Hunt. "Several major
stand-alone SBC vendors have been acquired by gateway and router vendors,
who then incorporate the technology into their own products such as media
gateways and routers, eliminating the original product."
Some SBC vendors are responding by creating products that will fit into
gateway and router equipment, such as blades or software installed on a
platform, which can allow them to effectively market their product by
becoming a partner, rather than a competitor, to the major equipment
vendors. Stand-alone SBC vendors must provide superior products to compete
with major equipment vendors creating multi-function products utilizing
different types of equipment. In addition, SBC vendors can expand their
opportunities by creating products for the large equipment vendors.
The World Session Border Controller Markets is part of the Carrier
Infrastructure subscription, which also includes research services in the
following markets: media gateways, softswitches, application servers, media
servers and carrier routers. All research services included in
subscriptions provide detailed market opportunities and industry trends,
evaluated following extensive interviews with market participants. Analyst
interviews are available to the press.
Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting company, has been
partnering with clients to support the development of innovative strategies
for more than 40 years. The company's industry expertise integrates growth
consulting, growth partnership service and corporate management training to
identify and develop opportunities. Frost & Sullivan serves an extensive
clientele that includes Global 1000 companies, emerging companies and the
investment community by providing comprehensive industry coverage that
reflects a unique global perspective and combines ongoing analysis of
markets, technologies, econometrics and demographics. For more information,
visit http://www.frost.com.
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