Nemertes Impact Analysis:
Ecessa Highlights Growth in SIP Trunking
Privately held Ecessa introduced ClariLink, an appliance for SIP trunking security and optimization. Ecessa's announcement underscores growth in enterprise adoption of SIP trunking as a way to reduce PSTN costs and add new capabilities such as intelligent call routing and increased resiliency.
Nemertes has tracked growing interest in SIP trunking, with 19% of recent research participants saying that they are deploying SIP trunking, up from 12% in 2008. An additional 28% are planning to deploy, while 16% are evaluaating SIP trunking for potential future deployment.
Impacts:
Enterprises: Evaluate SIP trunking for potential to reduce PSTN access costs, deliver new features, and add resiliency.
Vendors: SIP trunking represents a growth market in a down economy. Deliver services that reduce enterprise costs while offering value added features not available via traditional PSTN access services.
Investors: Keep your eye on vendors supplying SIP trunking branch gateways including Acme Packet (NASDAQ:APKT), Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) and and privately held Ingate.
Irwin Lazar, Vice President, Communications Research
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