IP Desk Phone Sales Top $500 Million in the Fourth Quarter

Avaya, Cisco, and Nortel Phone Shipments Robust in Europe

Redwood City, Calif. – February 14, 2007 – A recently published report from Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the networking and telecommunications industries, indicates that IP desk phone market posted strong results in the fourth quarter of 2006, growing 31 percent year-over-year to exceed $500 million.

“Much of the strength in IP desk phone market in the fourth quarter came from large North American vendors, such as Avaya, Cisco, and Nortel, selling into Eastern Europe,” commented Alan Weckel, Analyst of IP Telephony Enterprise Research at Dell’Oro Group. “These vendors continue to expand their sales efforts in the region because Eastern Europe has the higher growth rate potential than the more mature Western European market. Many parts of Eastern Europe have antiquated PBXs and there is an opportunity for the region and vendors to transition directly to IP,” Weckel added.

The report also reveals that enterprise PBX market revenues climbed 9 percent over the same quarter a year ago partly on continued replacement cycle strength and strong sales in emerging regional markets. During the recent quarter, the strength in Eastern Europe helped the overall region gain over 3 percentage points of line shipment share.

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