VoIP to be more popular in 2010
Voice over Internet Protocol or VoIP is expected to become more widespread in 2010.
A number of expects including Chad Behling, of open source software company RockBochs, expect market growth in the VoIP sector over the next few years “as bandwidth increases and users adjust to declining analogue lines”.
He went on to add that the global economic slowdown has actually been beneficial to manufacturers of VoIP products as businesses want to cut down on their external communications costs and VoIP can be an effective way to do this.
It has been estimated that VoIP and telephony are set set to expand during 2010, with the unified communications and collaboration market reaching a value of $7.4 billion (£4.6 billion) by the end of the year.
Advances in networking technologies over the past few years have had a significant impact on the way businesses deploy telephony services and has stepped up the industry’s shift from PSTN, or old fashioned fixed lined telephony towards Voice over IP (VoIP) based offerings.
Chad Behling believes that said there will be significant market growth in the VoIP sector over the next few years as bandwidth increases and the use of analogue lines declines.
He explained that the VoIP sector has benefited from the global economic crisis, because firms are looking to cut down on external communication costs and are turning to VoIP providers such as Skype and Vonage in order to do this. He added that the ”explosive growth path” is expected to continue well into 2010.
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