As more businesses move from conventional voice services to VoIP-based offerings, the need for testing tools to ensure the reliable operation of session border controllers is growing among both enterprises and providers of VoIP services, according to the latest report published by Light Reading's VoIP Services Insider.

A recent report published by Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, indicates that the carrier IP telephony market rose 7 percent sequentially in the second quarter of 2009, to $737 million, as service providers replenished equipment and license inventories and purchased infrastructure to serve near-term customer needs.

The main engines of growth in South Korea's telecom market from 2010 to 2014 will be services built around broadband technologies such as VoIP, IPTV, and mobile data, according to the latest report from Pyramid Research.

Communications Markets in South Korea offers a precise, incisive profile of the country's converged telecommunications, media, and technology sectors based on proprietary data from our research in the South Korean market. The 29-page report provides detailed competitive analysis of both the fixed and mobile sectors, tracks the market shares of technologies and services, and monitors the introduction and spread of new technologies such as WiMax, IPTV, and VoIP. This executive study provides a comprehensive view of the South Korea communications market by analyzing key trends, evaluating near-term opportunities and assessing upcoming risks factors.

Mobile VoIP has made undeniable progress toward becoming a mainstream technology, and its adoption by cellular network operators will be an important step in the mobile industry's evolution to all-IP technologies and services, according to the latest report from Unstrung Insider, a paid research service from TechWeb's Unstrung.

Mobile VoIP: A Disruptive Service Goes Mainstream analyzes the latest developments and trends driving mobile VoIP applications and services. It examines the technology issues that have confronted mobile VoIP upstarts and the solutions that they have developed to overcome them. It also explores the commercial and technical challenges and opportunities facing startups and incumbent mobile phone operators and handset makers. Finally, this report profiles 12 mobile VoIP providers, exploring their strategies for tapping into the young and promising market for IP-enabled voice offerings.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "VoIP Market in Poland 2009 - Development Forecasts for 2009-2012" report to their offering. VoIP market in Poland 2009 draws on a wide variety of trusted sources to create a comprehensive reference tool. Proprietary data and projections are added by skilled analysts with years of expertise in their fields. Readers benefit from the field experience provided via interviews with seasoned telecom industry professionals.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "North American VoIP Access Service Markets" to their offering. This Frost & Sullivan research service titled North American VoIP Access Service Markets provides an analysis of the factors positively and negatively impacting the market, discusses market and technology trends, and provides a forecast and a vendor-positioning analysis. In this research, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine the following technologies: unified communications, VoIP trunking, SIP trunking, and line-side VoIP access services.

Dell'Oro Group reports that IP lines for the PBX market are forecasted to decline for the first time ever in 2009. Notwithstanding, VoIP penetration will continue to grow this year, albeit at a slower pace compared to the previous years.

According to the report, Cisco, Avaya and Nortel had the most IP line shipments in the quarter. The report also revealed that despite VoIP transforming the industry for over a decade, the IP line shipments for the eight largest vendors in the market, namely Aastra, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Mitel, NEC, Nortel and Siemens averaged only 49 percent of total line shipments in the quarter.

Communications market research firm Infonetics Research launched a new North America Business VoIP Services Leadership Matrix that analyzes and ranks the top service providers in the VoIP business services market.

"In the aggressive North American business VoIP services market, Verizon Business stands out as the market leader in both IP Centrex and IP connectivity services. Still, in this highly competitive market, a number of providers, such as New Global Telecom and Cbeyond, are finding success in offering compelling solutions for businesses," said Diane Myers, Infonetics Research's Directing Analyst for Service Provider VoIP and IMS.

Just-released research by independent market analyst firm Infonetics Research puts MetaSwitch for the first time at the top of its global ranking of VoIP vendors for Class 5 softswitch licenses. According to the report, "Service Provider VoIP Equipment and Subscribers Q1 2009," MetaSwitch is now the number one supplier of Class 5 softswitch licenses with 18.4 percent share. In North America, the company continued its leading position in the same product category, increasing its share to an impressive 60.1 percent.

In an innovative effort to gauge the current state of the fast-emerging, high-definition voice market, technology pioneer Global IP Solutions, took advantage of its recent webinar on HD voice to poll its most likely applications.

The GIPS-initiated poll, taken by 186 of the webinar’s attendees, revealed that a third of respondents thought HD voice quality would benefit overall productivity in the workplace, while 57 percent considered conference calling would benefit the most. Sixteen percent believed HD’s greatest impact would be felt in call centers.

Global IP Solutions has published a whitepaper entitled "How to Select the Best Codec for HD voice." There is a growing demand for HD, which provides a more 'life-like' experience - on TVs, PCs, and telephones. HD voice promises rich collaboration applications, whether it's 1-to-1 phone calls or multi-party conferencing.

The recession is crippling businesses across the nation, but several industries will remain unscathed by the current economic strife, according to recent Recession Updates published by industry research firm IBISWorld. As one of the nation's most respected independent publishers of business intelligence research reports, IBISWorld today announced the top 10 industries expected to have the largest revenue growth in 2009.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Enterprise VoIP Equipment in APAC 2008-2011" report to their offering.

VoIP is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or through any other IP-based network. Equipment used for the deployment of VoIP services are referred to as Enterprise VoIP Equipment, which typically include enterprise IP PBX/KTS Equipment, VoIP access points and gateways, VoIP adapters, VoIP Phones, etc. VoIP is a revolutionary technology having the potential to completely change the global telephone systems. It is more defined in terms of cost saving over expensive telecommunication tariffs. This advantage offsets the cost of investment in deploying the expensive infrastructure for this technology. Enterprise VoIP Equipment is rapidly evolving and gaining wide acceptance and use among enterprise and consumer/home segments. The roll out of next generation network across the APAC region is positively seeing the implementation of VoIP technology.

The struggling economy will slow the growth of VoIP, but deployments remain wide-ranging at mitigated levels, reports In-Stat. Slightly more than one in three US businesses that have deployed VoIP use it exclusively. Many more businesses use VoIP as a partial voice solution. US businesses are also beginning to embrace voice-enabled IM capabilities, particularly among younger workers.

Reportlinker announces that a new market research report, "Enterprise VOIP Equipment Market 2008-2011". VoIP is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or through any other IP-based network. Equipment used for the deployment of VoIP services are referred to as Enterprise VoIP Equipment, which typically includes enterprise IP PBX/KTS Equipment, VoIP access points and gateways, VoIP adapters, VoIP Phones etc. The primary factors driving enterprises to deploy Enterprise VoIP Equipment in their core enterprise network systems are cost savings on long distance calls (through the use of toll bypass), ability to integrate with existing business applications, ease of use/manageability and flexibility, and relatively reduced operational costs in comparison to legacy equipment.