Overall, the worldwide telephony market expanded by 7.4% in 2006 after a pedestrian increase of only 2.1% in 2005. While IP telephony has made huge strides, increasing by a robust 44%, TMD hardware still represented 75% of the market in 2006.
The telephony market is fairly split between small-midsize businesses, defined as under 400 employees, and large enterprise businesses. The small-midsize businesses market accounted for 60% of the 2006 shipments, however, the enterprise market dominates in the IP line shipments segment. While small-midsize businesses are deploying IP solutions in ever increasing numbers, bandwidth, cost, quality of service issues, and IT support staff constraints have kept TDM the technology of choice for most smaller firms.
Andrew Taub
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