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| VoIP Growth Poses New Challenges for SBC Testing |
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While session border controllers (SBCs) have been deployed by network operators for several years now, they are experiencing a surge of interest at the enterprise level, as corporations of all sizes continue their migration toward VoIP and other IP-based applications. As the number of installations grows, it is imperative that SBCs stay at the top of their game in terms of keeping networks secure, handling tasks such as network address translation (NAT) and firewall traversal issues, protocol transcoding, and managing access to network resources by external traffic for service providers and enterprises.
Although service providers are under increased pressure to keep network prices as low as possible, they must keep ensure that quality of service (QoS) remains a top priority. The cost of building out a VoIP network that fails in the field is much greater than the cost of pre-testing equipment in the lab before putting it into play. With total SBC sales expected to reach about $197 million in 2009, network operators and enterprises are starting to recognize that they simply cannot afford to risk building out a network that is not fully tested.
VoIP Growth Poses New Challenges for SBC Testing examines the SBC testing market, including a comparative analysis of solutions that looks at specific tests provided, technologies utilized, competitive differentiators, and partners for each company. The report examines current and future market drivers, savings that can be achieved with the testing solutions, the benefits of testing solutions, and the challenges the market faces. This report also provides a competitive analysis of eight top vendors in the industry, including trends each vendor expects in the future.
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 Table of Contents (vsi0909_toc.pdf) |
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| Network equipment vendors look at SBC testing for several reasons, among them capacity and security improvements. There are several other drivers in the SBC testing marketplace. The following excerpt examines a few of the leading SBC testing providers by market drivers, listing those that drive the SBC testing market, those that are expected to drive it over the next 18 to 24 months, and why. |
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 Companies analyzed in this report include: Acme Packet Inc. (Nasdaq: APKT); Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A); Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO); Empirix Inc.; EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. (Nasdaq: EXFO); Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA); Mu Dynamics Inc.; and Spirent Communications plc (LSE: SPT). |
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| NOVEMBER 2009 |
 Femtocells at the Enterprise |
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| JANUARY 2010 |
| Cloud Telephony |
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