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VoIP Gets A Big Business Nudge
By David Utter
Expert Author
Article Date: 2005-05-13
Revenues for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services topped $1.3 billion USD last year.
A report from Infonetics Research projects sales increasing to $19.9 billion in 2009, as demand from businesses increases.
And competition to provide hardware to businesses will be very competitive. Cisco, which recently worked with a British integrator to deploy 8,500 of its IP phones to British Airways, according to an InfoWorld report.
Network device vendor Juniper Networks, which has begun a relationship with Avaya, wants to integrate VoIP into its infrastructure offerings. 3Com has begun to offer solutions for security and service configuration.
Troubleshooting gets some help from Fluke Networks, a leading manufacturer of diagnostic equipment. The company demonstrated a new testing tool, NetTool VoIP, at the recently concluded Interop 2005 conference.
About the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. Email him here.
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