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Strong IP telephony sales drive PBX market up
Monday, 05 September 2005
Worldwide PBX revenue grew 12% to US$1.6 billion between the first and second quarters of 2005, and is forecast to total close to US$7 billion in 2005, according to a new enterprise telephony report.

The report from Infonetics Research stated that TDM equipment revenue is expected to plummet, from US$2.8 billion in 2003 to US$759 million in 2008, but the overall market is growing due to strong IP PBX sales, which jumped 17% to US$1.2 billion in 2Q05. Worldwide hybrid PBX revenue will nearly triple and pure IP PBX more than quadruple between 2003 and 2008.

"This was a very solid quarter for the PBX market," said Matthias Machowinski, directing analyst at Infonetics Research. "All vendors had a positive quarter, and most of them grew in the solid double-digits. The battle for IP PBX line market share in North America continues, with Nortel leading and Cisco passing Avaya this quarter."

2Q05 Highlights:

- The top IP PBX system vendors for worldwide lines shipped are the same as last quarter: Alcatel is number-one, followed by Nortel, Avaya, Cisco, and Mitel;

- Worldwide PBX/KTS unit shipments totaled 131,000 in 2Q05, up 13% from 1Q05;

- TDM makes up 49%, hybrid 42%, and pure IP 9% of worldwide units shipped;

- Hybrid PBXs account for 58% of total PBX/KTS revenue, TDM 26%, and pure IP 16%; by 2008, hybrids will grow to 69% of the market, pure IP will increase to 23%, and TDM will drop to 8%.