Dell’Oro Group Reports IP Telephone Sales Top $500 Million in the Second Quarter

Cisco Leaps Forward in Overall PBX Market on Record IP Telephone Sales

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – August 22, 2006 – A recently published report from Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, reveals that IP Telephone market posted strong results in the second quarter of 2006, growing 42 percent year-over-year to reach over $500 million. 

 The report shows that Cisco’s strong sales of over 1 million IP telephones in the quarter—phones that are often sold in combination with IP PBXs—not only widened its lead in the IP PBX market, but also enabled Cisco to climb two places in the total PBX market. 
                                                                                                                      
“IP Telephony is currently driving PBX market sales as a result of enterprises increasingly adopting Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and retiring their traditional PBX systems,” commented Steve Raab, Director of IP Telephony Research at Dell’Oro Group.  “As a major proponent of IP Telephony, Cisco is gaining PBX market share in all major geographic markets around the globe—in North America, EMEA, Asia Pacific and rest of the world— and challenging incumbent vendors, Avaya and Nortel, for market leadership,” Raab added.

About the Report

The Dell’Oro Group IP Telephony Enterprise Quarterly Report offers complete, in-depth coverage of the market with tables covering manufacturers’ revenue, average selling prices, line (analog/digital and IP) and unit shipments for IP PBX–large and small, Hybrid IP/TDM PBX–large and small, traditional PBX, traditional key systems, and IP telephones.  To purchase this report, please contact Margaret Miles, call +1.650.622.9400 x225 or email Margaret@DellOro.com.

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