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Businesses’ Migration to VoIP

Innovation Reports - 10/01/2007 Businesses’ Migration to VoIP

Migration from classic telephony to ToIP: challenges, strategies and outlook

The corporate voice market is currently in the process of switching from traditional telephony to ToIP. This market report examines the options available to businesses when migrating to IP telephony, gauges the current state of the migration, positions the offers being marketed by the leading players and supplies a growth outlook for both supply and demand.


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Contents

 1 - VoIP challenges and strategies


1.1 Scope of the examined market
• Company segmentation


1.2 VoIP rollout context
• The shift to open technologies: IP, SIP, XML
• ToIP and operational needs
- New uses opened up by ToIP (mobility, presence management, combined telephony and IT…)


1.3 Strategic implementation options
• Comparison of rollout models
- Hybrid model versus full IP
- Centralised IPBX model,
- Hosted model
- IP Centrex model
• Key criteria
- QoS
- Security
- Reliability
- Carry-over from existing system
• Technological choices
- VoIP services on MPLS networks
- Advantages and drawbacks of IP phones
- Advantages and drawbacks of SIP
- Relevance of Open Source solutions
• ToIP roadmap
• VoIP and costs
- Observed level of required investments, ROI, management and maintenance costs


2 - Current state and growth of demand


2.1 IP hardware market
• Evolution of the world telephony market (TDM, IP PBX…)


2.2 Status of ToIP migration in 10 points
• ToIP/VoIP penetration level
• Type of sites covered
• Incentives for switching
• Enablers
• Obstacles
• Technical solutions chosen
• Impact on access
• Technical inventory
• Financial inventory
• Medium-long term projects


2.3 Market segmentation
• By company size and sector of activity


3 - Offers and players


3.1 Suppliers
• Market analysis: marketing position, distribution strategy, demand and recommended technical solutions
• Impact of VoIP solutions’ penetration in terms of equipment, demand analysis, security management, interoperability, services on offer, ROI, growth drivers, obstacles encountered, technical issues
• Market data: hardware shipped, ToIP sales, corporate customers, analysis of main competitors, major clients
• ToIP/VoIP partnerships: operators, equipment suppliers, integrators, service providers…
• Growth outlook


3.2 Supply analysis
• Player typology
• Player and offer positioning (value chain)
• Service provider strategies
• Vendor competition and partnerships
- Equipment suppliers, integrators and operators
• Growth outlook
- New solutions on the way: a shift to all software?


4 - Conclusions and ToIP market opportunities


4.1 Technological trends: moving to all software?
4.2 What outlook for providers: strategic alliances, new services…?
4.3 What outlook for businesses: speed of migration, types of outsourcing…?

• Stakes involved in businesses’ adoption of VoIP
• Offer strategies and market players
• Rollout models
• State of demand
• Technological trends
• Cost comparison
• Growth outlook
• What technological developments are underway?
• What strategic options exist in terms of rollout models and technological choices?
• What is the roadmap for ToIP?
• What costs are involved in switching to VoIP (investments, management, maintenance)?
• What are the incentives and obstacles associated with each type of VoIP ?
• What market segmentation (SME vs. corporate, sectors of activity)?
• How are the players’ offers positioned?
• How is the market likely to evolve?
Operators and integrators
• Evaluating VoIP’s penetration in SME and corporate markets
• Obtaining the results of a comparative positioning of the offers

Equipment suppliers
• Assessing the size of the PABX and IP markets
• Understanding businesses’ VoIP adoption models
• Estimating operators’ proposed market value

Investors and analysts
• Understanding the technological and strategic implications of VoIP
• Analysing the associated business models
• Assessing VoIP players’ positioning in the value chain
• Alcatel
• Avaya
• BT
• Cisco
• FT
• Microsoft
• Nextiraone
• Nortel
• Telindus-Arche
Users interviewed • APHP
• AXA
• Cap Gemini
• Casino
• Club Med
• Gard Regional Councils
• EDF
• French Ministry of the Interior
• IT service providers
• SNCF
• University of Angers



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