The voice over IP (VoIP) integrated circuit market has continued to grow as increasing numbers of vendors integrate VoIP features in customer premise equipment.
According to In-Stat, the VoIP IC market will expand more than 600% from $208.7 million last year to $1.3 billion in 2009. Though revenues from VoIP IC sales have grown slowly on the infrastructure side, due to what the firm describes as "extreme price pressure," In-Stat expects wireless handsets to emerge as a key market for the chips over the next few years.
"By the end of the forecast period, VoIP functionality will be integrated into a high percentage of new wireless handsets," In-Stat analyst Norm Bogen said in a statement. "From a revenue perspective, the IP Phone sub-segment (wireless and wireline combined) represents the smallest revenue market today, but will be the largest one by 2009. This reversal will occur due to high growth in business-oriented IP PBX/hosted PBX phones and dual-mode wireless handsets."
Once-dominant VoIP IC maker Texas Instruments has seen its market share slip, despite increases in units shipped. According to In-Stat, vendors without production facilities are finding themselves in increasingly stronger positions to take advantage of the market.
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
