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Light Reading Insider Releases New Enterprise VOIP Report NEW YORK, May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The cost of an enterprise IP PBX phone system ranges from $500 to $900 per user, but the overall price escalates rapidly when a LAN upgrade is required, according to a new report from Light Reading (http://www.lightreading.com/). "VOIP: The Enterprise Options," published by the subscription research service Light Reading Insider (http://www.lightreading.com/insider), evaluates the addressable market for CPE-based and hosted services, as well as the likely takeup rates as vendors and service providers court the enterprise market. "Product improvements and price declines have raised the appeal of VOIP," says the report's author, Daro Clark, "but the market's growth will remain gradual as companies take a piecemeal approach to VOIP, enabling their business on an incremental basis." The report analyzes the latest enterprise VOIP products alongside an investigation of how RBOCs and other service providers are bolstering their lucrative telephony revenues with managed IP PBX and IP Centrex services. Key findings include: -- IP PBX systems have rejuvenated the enterprise telephony market in recent years, but enterprises looking to deploy VOIP are now faced with an abundance of hosted service alternatives. -- LAN performance issues are holding the market back. Vendors are forming LAN and IP PBX partnerships to combat Cisco's single-sourced advantage. -- Private hosted-VOIP vendors, such as Sylantro and BroadSoft, are making major inroads into large carrier networks and have great products for the SMB market. -- Service providers report that hosted solutions can lower the total cost of ownership by up to 20 percent, but require the customer to relinquish control -- a trait not associated with enterprise customers. -- Traditional Centrex customers have a shorter product cycle and thus present a more immediate addressable market than PBX customers, who will only renew PBXs every seven to ten years. Private vendors analyzed in this report include: BroadSoft Inc.; Mitel Networks Corp.; NetCentrex SA; Sylantro Systems Corp.; and VocalData Inc. Public vendors analyzed in this report include: Alcatel SA (NYSE:ALA); Avaya Inc. (NYSE:AV); Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO); NEC Corp. (NASDAQ: NIPNY); Nortel Networks Ltd. (NYSE/Toronto: NT); Siemens AG (NYSE: SI; Frankfurt: SIE); and 3Com Corp. (NASDAQ:COMS). Public service providers analyzed in this report include: AT&T Corp. (NYSE:T); BellSouth Corp. (NYSE:BLS); BT Group PLC (NYSE:BTY); MCI Inc. (NASDAQ:WCOEQNASDAQ:MCWEQ); Qwest Communications Inc. (NYSE:Q); SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC); Sprint Corp. (NYSE:FON); and Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ). The report is available as part of an annual subscription to the monthly Light Reading Insider, which is priced at $1,350. The subscription includes 12 monthly reports covering the hottest wireline equipment and services markets. Individual reports are available for $900. To subscribe, or to get more information, please visit: http://www.lightreading.com/insider. Sales contact: Dave Williams Sales Director Light Reading Insider 415-293-8470 DATASOURCE: Light Reading Insider CONTACT: Sales - Dave Williams, Sales Director, Light Reading Insider, +1-415-293-8470, Web site: http://www.lightreading.com/

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