Dittberner, the international market research and consulting firm, specializing in the telecommunications industry has just released it Worldwide YE 2005 NGN and Digital Switching Markets Analysis.

This study report shows some interesting facts like:

a) For the first time in history, NGN VoIP port shipments have outnumbered that of digital switching in 2005!
b) The NGN VoIP market grew by over 151 per cent whereas the digital switching market dropped by almost 30 per cent in terms of ports shipped in 2005.

Furthermore, the Dittberner study also reveals that phone companies across the world prefer to replace and/or upgrade their PSTN infrastructure with a softswitch solution that provides a single platform to deliver next-gen IP-based multimedia services as well as all the basic telephony services from the circuit-switched world.


Source XTVWorld