California based IT soothsayers Infonetics is saying IP Phone endpoints and Corporate IP telephony is on the rise:
In its Enterprise Telephony report, Infonetics said sales were US$2.6 billion during the third quarter of 2007, up 11 per cent from the same period in 2006.
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“We definitely saw an uptake in pure IP end points,” Machowinski said. “The customers are starting to buy IP phones instead of buying an IP PBX that will support a legacy TDM phone.” Enteprises are using converged IP networks to help integrate desktop and telephony applications, Machowinski said.
This is good news. I have always said that hybrid phone systems are a temporary transitional solution. The true benefit of IP Telephony is in the new breed of application services that are being developed from companies like Cistera, Aspect, Genesis and others. So the more IP endpoints, the more interesting things we can do.
