Acme Packet
Though Acme Packet officials were forced to scale down previous outlooks for calendar year 2008, the company’s concentration on expanding its product portfolio will position the company to take advantage of developing market opportunities in 2009. (9/16/2008)
Alcatel-Lucent
With the rationalization of its NGN and IMS portfolio behind it and a change in leadership, Alcatel-Lucent is in a strong position to capitalize on an expected pick up in the IP transformation market in 2009. (9/15/2008)
AudioCodes
AudioCodes’ expansion through acquisitions’ strategy, executed over the past couple of years, has turned the corner yielding profitability and outpacing market growth, pushing AudioCodes toward a sustainable position of growth and profit. (10/31/2008)
BroadSoft
Making adjustments to better compete in a constantly evolving hosted telephony application server market, BroadSoft is opening up its technology to a universe of developers of business and personal applications. (8/7/2008)
Cisco
As VoIP gets absorbed into the service delivery of the future and becomes a mainstream deliverable for carriers, Cisco will be challenged to provide the equipment for enabling carriers to deliver new and traditional services simultaneously. (7/31/2008)
Comverse
With the addition of an HSS partnership, Comverse continues to differentiate its offering from competitors through the strengthening of its end-to-end solution proposition. (8/15/2008)
Ericsson
Though Ericsson is arguably the early leader in the number of IMS deployments, this distinction puts added pressure on the company to maintain its momentum as Tier 1 service providers begin to take a more measured approach to IMS adoption. (7/2/2008)
GENBAND
GENBAND reverses direction and divests itself of its M6 Communications Application Server. This is part of the company’s effort to position GENBAND as the media gateway vendor of choice for fixed and mobile applications. (9/17/2008)-
Italtel
Like most of its rivals, Italtel is embracing the Web 2.0 model. Where the company differs, however, is that it is focusing on empowering service providers to capture enterprise business, rather than consumer. (11/14/2008)
MetaSwitch
MetaSwitch’s win at EMBARQ shows it can compete against its larger industry rivals in fair and open competition by delivering a turnkey NGN solution that includes the IP infrastructure as well as an SDP and professional services. (9/16/2008)
NextPoint
Following through on strategic initiatives first revealed at the formation of the company, NextPoint streamlined much of its organization – especially on the fixed side – to focus on emerging opportunities in the mobile session management space. (9/17/2008)
Nokia Siemens Networks
Nokia Siemens Networks seems to have actually executed on its merger of equals without major loss of market momentum, reporting good results based upon revenue and market share and still on track to deliver on its EUR 2 billion of cost synergies. (11/10/2008)
Nortel
Nortel continued to maintain its number one position in service provider VoIP/IMS infrastructure revenue through 2007, according to Synergy Research Group. However, the overall trend for the company’s packet-voice business is in decline. (7/30/2008)
Sonus Networks
Through product, diversification, and technology enhancements aimed at wireless service providers and geographic diversity, Sonus is looking to widen its available market in the hopes of achieving sustainable profitability and a leading position. (8/12/2008)
Sylantro Systems
Though Sylantro has maintained its traditional revenue numbers and market position through the first half of 2008, the company has been largely inactive in terms of publicly-announced enhancements to the Synergy platform. (9/16/2008)
Taqua
Taqua, having been sold twice in its not too distant past, has re-emerged as a small private entity looking to re- establish itself as the premier supplier of Class 4/5 replacement solutions. It is off to a good start, with several wins this year. (7/14/2008)
Tekelec
With carriers looking to adopt IMS in an incremental and measured fashioned, Tekelec’s focus on strengthening SIP and offering mediation and orchestration capabilities now looks prescient. (7/17/2008)
Thomson (Cirpack)
Though Thomson is in an advantageous position to realize revenue growth in emerging sectors of the industry, such as IPTV and FMC, delays in the implementation of IMS will push back some opportunities in this space into 2009. (7/11/2008)
Veraz
Having turned profitable in 2007, the first time since going public, Veraz needs to keep the momentum going throughout 2008 by adding to its customer base through geographic expansion and maximizing the revenue from the installed base. (9/17/2008)
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