VoIP technology has grown 69 percent, to $452 million, in the third quarter according to a report released Monday by Infonetics Research and reported by TechWeb.com and NetworkPipeline.  In the same report it is noticeable to say that Voice-application servers are beginning to sell in ever-increasing numbers and additionally being integrated into existing triple-play solutions (we may add!).

Another report from Yahoo Finance, also reports the same thing, but also adding that there is a forecast estimating that it is projected a growth of about 39% in overall market size from $1.3billion to $4.8billion in 2008. The most amazing increase according to both sites is reported mostly at equipment categories, with Voice application servers, session border controllers and softswitches.
We may also add that also TDMoIP is also another technology to look at since it is very usefull on VoIP solution provider since actually increase usage by 30% !

Sources:Yahoo Finance , Networkingpipeline

International SIP 2005: will take place in Paris on January 25 to 28. The accent will once again be on the technological excellence of the presentations.
Upper Side is expecting more than 400 delegates in January 2005. International SIP 2005 will be jointly organized with TVoDSL 05, another worldwide success. Therefore, the SIP conference will represent the VoIP side of this Triple Play event. In all, Upper side expects more than 800 participants.

First there was Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, that nifty way for computer users to make free calls machine-to-machine anywhere in the world. Then came services like Skype and Vonage that, for a fee, let calls generated by a computer or a specially equipped phone connect to regular landline or mobile phones.

EarthLink SIPshare, a simple, SIP-based proof-of-concept content sharing application, demonstrates the viability of SIP as a protocol over which peer-to-peer (P2P) applications other than the well-known voice and video cases may be implemented.

This is the main question which is currently being asked by large number of people involved in this field. The Internet is the paradise of globalization but could easily become the pandora box also for telephone carriers and thousand of people working in this market.

Bank of America is deploying some 180,000 Cisco Internet Protocol-based telephones across its 5,800 branches and enterprise centers in a major deployment of Voice over IP technology from Cisco.

The deployment will take three years, the companies said.

Cisco began offering VoIP phones five years ago.

The move to a VoIP network will help Bank America eliminate 362 private branch exchanges (PBXs).

Today, at the first annual Astricon Conference, Asterisk version 1.0.0 was announced by Mark Spencer and released to the world. Currently, the release can be found on the Digium™ ftp site and also via http. This release marks the outstanding achievements of the developers, the hundreds of friends and tireless supporters from IRC on irc.freenode.net in #asterisk, and the thousands of Asterisk users worldwide.