Research and Markets: Study the UK's Only Current In-Depth Market Research into the Real State of SIP Trunking For 2009

DUBLIN, Ireland-(Business Wire)-February 17, 2009 - Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/82f923/uk_sip_trunking_re) has announced the addition of the "UK SIP Trunking Report 2009" report to their offering.

Highlights include:

Market Forecast (2009 2011)
Market Dynamics (Strategies, Vendor Propositions, Pricing)
Identifying the UK's SIP Trunking Providers
Challenges to Growth
Technology factors (QoS, Gateways, Broadband etc)

This 25 page report provides not only insight into the current market numbers and likely growth over the next 3 years, in addition, we had a detailed look at the current market propositions & strategies and how these are likely to change in the coming months and years. So, as customers look towards SIP trunking as a possible recession proof service, purchase the following report and get a better understanding of the market opportunity that really exists.

The SIP Trunking market in the UK has finally began to gain some traction, with the total number of 'channels sold' now at 51,000, (from virtually zero 18 months ago); we now forecast this to grow rapidly to over half a million within the next 3 years.

The reason? Simply that the service has been adopted as a key product by the likes of Gamma Telecom, Voiceflex, and many others. The reluctance of customers to engage with such products has largely evaporated, and our research has led us to predict that SIP Trunking will shortly begin to enjoy a much higher profile, a fact confirmed by having witnessed the service energise the ambitions of a number of Tier 1 carriers.

Our research also reveals that we are witnessing the beginnings of a 2-tier market (possibly due to the current economic environment); whereby many organizations will forego a fully QoS enabled offering in return for 'quick and affordable' service. Never-the-less, with average service rentals amounting to £26 a quarter, the market (in terms of channel rentals alone) will be worth in excess of £60M within the next 3 years. We note also that whilst the two key obstacles to SIP Trunking; (PBX compatibility and affordable QoS) both remain, they no longer appears to impede the willingness of customers to embrace the service, nor of vendors to provide it.

As this report will show, the effort required to provide a 'toll-quality' SIP Trunking service with comparable SLAs to ISDN is still a challenge; what is well understood however are the technical factors involved in making it happen. The trade-off is cost and with a two tier market evolving, market forces may well dictate how this develops over time. But for now, you can have cheap SIP Trunking and you can have 'Quality' SIP Trunking; you just can't have

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