Podcast: VoIP, Unified Communications Continue Making Progress
A trio of trends -- the desire for hosted services, the efficiencies introduced by SIP trunking, and the use of IP as a home for a wide variety of applications and services -- is leading to great growth for the broad VoIP category, according to ABI Research's Subha Rama. (Podcast time: 25:10)
By Carl Weinschenk
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VoIP-based enterprise communications platforms and services – which include fixed mobile convergence (FMC), contact center infrastructure, IP/TDM PBXes, messaging and conferencing and collaboration – will produce revenues of $4.8 billion by 2015, said Subha Rama, the Senior Analyst in ABI Research's Enterprise
Communications Research Group.
Rama told Site Editor Carl Weinschenk that business VoIP is driven by three trends: The growth of hosted providers, the growth of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking, and the coalescing of telecommunications applications on IP networks.
This article was originally published on Nov 11, 2010

Rama told Site Editor Carl Weinschenk that business VoIP is driven by three trends: The growth of hosted providers, the growth of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking, and the coalescing of telecommunications applications on IP networks.
Subha Rama on VoIP and UC: [swf file="http://vid.itbe.com/ctoedge/abi1111.mp3"]