Avaya, Cisco lead IP Phone, IP PBX market

BANGALORE: Enterprise VoIP quarterly update published by iLocus, a market research firm dedicated to VoIP industry, reveals that Avaya and Cisco emerged as the clear leaders in enterprise IP telephony market in Q3 2006. Cisco leads desktop IP phone market while Avaya leads IPPBX market.

Spectralink continues to maintain its leadership in single mode VoIP over Wi-Fi handset business. Spectralink’s leadership has mainly to do with the business that the vendor does through OEM channels like Avaya, Intertel, NEC, Alcatel and Siemens. In Q3 2006, Spectralink branded handsets shipments were less as compared to Cisco handset shipments.

Q3 2006 saw vendors shipping a total of about 4.2 million IP PBX end user licenses. According to the report, an estimated 2.3 million desktop IP phones were shipped in quarter. Cisco leads the market with a share of 44%.

The report also estimates market size and market shares in segments including Enterprise VoIP Gateways, Voice-enabled 802.11 Chipsets, VoIP-over-WiFi Handsets, and ATAs.