Infonetics Research released excerpts from its 2nd quarter 2014 (2Q14) Enterprise Session Border Controllers report showing that the worldwide enterprise session border controller (eSBC) market reached $65 million in 2Q14, growing 8% from 1Q14. Infonetics expects the global eSBC market to grow at a 7% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2014 to 2018, when it will total $1.6 billion.
Infonetics positions Audiocodes, Cisco, Oracle, and Sonus (in alphabetical order) as the top tier of eSBC vendors in 2Q14, while Edgewater and Ingate following closely behind. According to Infonetics, North America market alone accounted for three-fourths of total global sales in 2Q14.
"Enterprise session border controllers (SBCs) are gaining acceptance worldwide and are growing at a fast clip, mainly driven by medium and large businesses deploying Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking services as a way of consolidating, centralizing, and increasing the utilization of their trunking infrastructure. SBCs are being positively impacted by the growth in SIP trunking and the increased migration of businesses to IP PBXs.”
- Diane Myers, principal analyst for VoIP, UC, and IMS at Infonetics Research
