Cisco Leads Enterprise VoIP

April 2, 2007: According to a new report by Juniper Research titled “Converged Wireless VoIP Handsets and Equipment, 2007-2012”, Cisco will be the enterprise VoIP leader for the next few years at least.

Juniper has estimated the market’s total current worth to be around US$2 billion, and predicts this figure to grow to US$15 billion by 2012. Out of this, the research sees the VoIP Access Points market for enterprises hitting US$5 billion in revenue by 2012, while VoIP WLAN Switch/ Mobility Controllers for enterprises should edge towards US$8 billion from current estimates of US930 million and US$1 billion respectively.

Region-wise, VoIP revenue for the Access Points market and Mobility Controllers are expected to reach US$1.6 billion and US$1.4 billion respectively for Asia Pacific.

“Cisco has a worldwide market presence and huge resources that makes it difficult for any other vendor to take market share,” says the report’s author Basharat Hamid Ashai. “Other vendors such as Aruba Networks, Trapeze Networks, Proxim Wireless andMeru Networks are poised to face stiff competition, not being able to maintain a lead for more than two or three consecutive years.”

In other Cisco VoIP news this week, the company divulged that its corporate VoIP and presence servers have a vulnerability to remote attacks and floods of specific data types. Cisco named its Unified CallManager (CUCM) and Unified Presence Server (CUPS) as being vulnerable to “specially crafted TCP, Internet Control Messaging Protocol (ICMP) or User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packets” according to computerworld.com.

Cisco has released details of filtering techniques to eliminate these security gaps and has also made patches available to remedy the issue.

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