Light Reading Insider Releases New Enterprise VOIP Report

Light Reading Insider Releases New Enterprise VOIP Report 


NEW YORK, May 13  /PRNewswire/ -- The cost of an enterprise IP PBX phone system
ranges from $500 to $900 per user, but the overall price escalates rapidly when
a LAN upgrade is required, according to a new report from Light Reading
(http://www.lightreading.com/).

"VOIP: The Enterprise Options," published by the subscription research service
Light Reading Insider (http://www.lightreading.com/insider), evaluates the
addressable market for CPE-based and hosted services, as well as the likely
takeup rates as vendors and service providers court the enterprise market.

"Product improvements and price declines have raised the appeal of VOIP," says
the report's author, Daro Clark, "but the market's growth will remain gradual
as companies take a piecemeal approach to VOIP, enabling their business on an
incremental basis."

The report analyzes the latest enterprise VOIP products alongside an
investigation of how RBOCs and other service providers are bolstering their
lucrative telephony revenues with managed IP PBX and IP Centrex services.

  Key findings include:

   -- IP PBX systems have rejuvenated the enterprise telephony market in
      recent years, but enterprises looking to deploy VOIP are now faced
      with an abundance of hosted service alternatives.

   -- LAN performance issues are holding the market back. Vendors are
      forming LAN and IP PBX partnerships to combat Cisco's single-sourced
      advantage.

   -- Private hosted-VOIP vendors, such as Sylantro and BroadSoft, are
      making major inroads into large carrier networks and have great
      products for the SMB market.

   -- Service providers report that hosted solutions can lower the total
      cost of ownership by up to 20 percent, but require the customer to
      relinquish control -- a trait not associated with enterprise
      customers.

   -- Traditional Centrex customers have a shorter product cycle and thus
      present a more immediate addressable market than PBX customers, who
      will only renew PBXs every seven to ten years.



Private vendors analyzed in this report include: BroadSoft Inc.; Mitel Networks
Corp.; NetCentrex SA; Sylantro Systems Corp.; and VocalData Inc.

Public vendors analyzed in this report include: Alcatel SA (NYSE:ALA); Avaya
Inc. (NYSE:AV); Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO); NEC Corp. (NASDAQ: NIPNY);
Nortel Networks Ltd. (NYSE/Toronto: NT); Siemens AG (NYSE: SI; Frankfurt: SIE);
and 3Com Corp. (NASDAQ:COMS).

Public service providers analyzed in this report include: AT&T Corp. (NYSE:T);
BellSouth Corp. (NYSE:BLS); BT Group PLC (NYSE:BTY); MCI Inc.
(NASDAQ:WCOEQNASDAQ:MCWEQ); Qwest Communications Inc. (NYSE:Q); SBC
Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC); Sprint Corp. (NYSE:FON); and Verizon
Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ).

The report is available as part of an annual subscription to the monthly Light
Reading Insider, which is priced at $1,350. The subscription includes 12
monthly reports covering the hottest wireline equipment and services markets.
Individual reports are available for $900.

To subscribe, or to get more information, please visit:
http://www.lightreading.com/insider.

   Sales contact:
   Dave Williams
   Sales Director
   Light Reading Insider
   415-293-8470
   

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