Market researches - 01/03/07

A few set of market information released this week:

• According to In-Stat, 40% PBX/Phone System Management and Telecom Expense Management will be out-tasked., as well as Managed Network Services (MNS) for security, storage and hosting adoption rate will double in next two years.

• According to ABI Research, the shipments of cellular modems would reach 68m units, worth about $10bn, by 2012.

• According to Pew Internet & American Life Project, 34% of US internet users have used a wireless (cellular or WiFi) connection to surf the web or check e-mails. Almost 20% of Internet users now have a wireless connection at home, up 100% since 01/05.

• Juniper Research has assessed that worldwide VoIP over Wi-Fi equipment revenues would grow to $82bn by 2012, of which $35bn in NA, $23bn in EMEA and $21bn in APAC. Dual Mode Mobile Handsets (Cellular/VoIP over Wi-Fi ) will dominate this market with $68bn in revenues by 2012.

• According to Infonetics, the worldwide service provider router and switch revenue grew 33% to $9.6bn, fueled by carrier Ethernet switch and IP router sales.

• Infonetics also assessed that CMTS revenues passed $1bn, up 39%, in 2006.