Daily News 2005/09/02

Avaya'S IP voice telecom system exceeds 7 million lines

Avaya, the world leading provider of enterprise telecom software, system and service, announced recently that the IP voice telecom system it delivered has exceeds 7 million lines. The 7 million th line was delivered to India's ING Vysya bank, a leading private bank of India. It will use Avaya Contact Center Express solution to provide 24×7 hotline service to its customers all over India.

Vonage will collect 600 million USD through IPO

According to reports dated on August 26, IP telephone service provider Vonage says that it will collect 600 million USD through IPO.

According to the report from news.com.com, Wallstreet anaysts says that up until now Vonage has collected 400 million USD from risk investors, including Bain, 3i and IVP.

At present, there are over 800,000 families using Vonage's service, which makes it the largest IP telephone service provider in America. The users can enjoy the Vonage's service at a low cost by inserting the Internet access line into the telephone.

Sales income from VoIP equipment increased by 55% than that of the same period of the last year, and will reach 5.7 billion USD in 2008

According to the latest report from Infonetics Research, the world VoIP market is growing rapidly. In the second quarter of this year, the sales sincome of VoIP equipment providers has been unprecedentedly high.

Infonetics Research reports that in the second quarter of this year the sales income of VoIP equipment provider amounted to 614 million USD, an increase of 18% than that of the first quarter of this year, and an increase of 55% than that of the second quarter of last year. It is anticipated that the sales income will reach 5.7 billiion USD by 2008.
According to Infonetics Research, the number of each variety of VoIP products expereinced an rapid increase. Among these products type-4 Softswitch and media server grows at rather a low rate, but type 5 softswitch grows very rapidly, and the sales income of the whole switch network reached 247.9 million USD, an increase of 15% than that of the first quarter.

It is said that the sales income from enterprise-oriented VoIP equipment will be increasing along with the increase of VoIP equipment for mall-office-home-office. It is anticipated that the latter will increase from 1.1 million (2004) to 24.3 million in 2008. From 2006 to 2008, there will be 6 million new online users each year. The rapdest growth will be in Europe, where the number of VoIP users will grow from 2.2 million (2004) to 27.8 million in 2008.