The industry is moving towards unification. Enterprise and carrier networks
are overlapping in functionality. The way forward in such scenarios is to offer
comprehensive solution catering to different market segments like SOHO, SME, and
large enterprises. Extensive customer reach backed up by high-quality service
support will be a differentiating factor. Offering solution for the specialized
verticals like hospitality, trading etc will generate a new market segment.
IP-converged network is a basic requirement of an enterprise. However,
offering the real-time IP applications on converged networks will revolutionize
the enterprise communication market.
In-Stat/MDR expects the number of IP lines shipped in PBX systems to touch
15.9 million by 2008.
In the coming years, traditional PBX market will shrink. This will be
replaced by the IP-enabled PBXs, IPconverged systems and pure-IP systems. In a
nutshell, the market for enterprise communication systems will grow at a rate of
25 percent.
Exactly what would be the adoption of IP-PBX? Will it replace TDM in the
coming years? Time-division multiplexing (TDM) is a type of digital multiplexing
in which two or more apparently simultaneous channels are derived from a given
frequency spectrum, ie, bit stream, by interleaving pulses representing bits
from different channels.
Replacement
of digital proprietary voice systems with systems that can handle the Internet
with combined voice, data, and video will be favored. Music, Internet TV, and
VoIP are the market drivers. Companies will increase the use of data over
networks.
While galloping technological advancements have us here amazing new features
and inversely lower prices for most office equipment, but full-featured phone
systems have remained largely out of reach for small companies. Most small
companies are forced to cobble together telephone solutions with a combination
of multi-line telephones, answering machines, and costly monthly telephone
company services.
On the SOHO market front, customers are still going for the regular EPABX/KTS
systems, but they are looking for IP-ready and broadband-ready systems. n
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