Abstract Unified communications is an emerging market, fragmented in definition, as well as in functionality. Wainhouse Research and In-Stat have compiled the first comprehensive, worldwide forecast for the unified communications products and unified communications services market. This detailed forecast includes products and/or services from the following segments:
-Presence and instant messaging (including mobile UC clients) -Telephony (PBXs—IP and TDM, IP Centrex, and broadband VoIP) -Audio conferencing (bridges and bridging services) -Web collaboration (premise-based and hosted solutions) -Team workspaces (premise-based) -Unified messaging -Videoconferencing (bridges, bridging services, group and desktop endpoints, and telepresence)
We have created two forecast documents to reflect the broad nature of the unified communications market: the UC Products Forecast and the UC Services Forecast. This document contains the UC products market forecast. The entire unified communications product market will be $8.8 billion in 2007, growing to $24.2 billion by 2012.
Product Number: IN0703948WHT Service: Wainhouse Research Publication Date: November 2007 Number of Pages: 86 Analyst: David Lemelin Price: $3,995 U.S. Dollars
