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Q4 2007 Enterprise Voice Market Shares
U.S. Market a Drag on Worldwide Enterprise Voice Sales in Q4

RENO, NV and STERLING, VA – March 4, 2008 – Synergy Research Group and Current Analysis today announced the availability of the Synergy Q4 2007 Enterprise Voice Market Share reports. Total Q4 worldwide sales decreased 1.7% sequentially dragged down by a 10% decline in the North American market. For the quarter, Western European Enterprise Voice sales were up 5%. Sales in Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa were up 6%, Latin America up 10%, and Asia/Pacific sales were flat for the quarter. Year over year Worldwide Enterprise Voice sales were up 11.1%.

"In Q4 2007 the Worldwide Enterprise IP Telephony market was down across the board with sequential decreases led by LAN Telephony Call Server which decreased 0.3%, followed by IP Phones which decreased 0.9% and Converged Telephony which decreased 2.7%," says Ryan Olsen, Senior Analyst at Synergy Research Group. "Nortel posted the only positive quarter among the large vendors with growth of 4.0% sequentially. The European large vendors Alcatel-Lucent and Siemens posted strong quarters with growth of 22.7% and 7.8%, respectively."

The worldwide market for Enterprise VoIP Gateways decreased 3.3% sequentially in Q4. Year-over-year sales were up 6.9 percent. The market leaders Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, Quintum, AudioCodes and Avaya. "Vendors such as Quintum, Vegastream, and AudioCodes are finding good opportunities as either OEM partners or as private label offerings," says Olsen.

The enterprise voice market segmentation is based on Synergy’s domain expertise, and numbers derived from a proven methodology that reconciles vendor-reported shipments (bottoms-up measurement) with publicly reported revenue results (top-down measurement) to provide the utmost accuracy. A detailed definition of the market is available in the full report

Enterprise Voice

The Synergy Research Enterprise Voice Research Service provides market analysis, market share, and forecast reports for IP-based and traditional PBX equipment.

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	Market Coverage
	Total Enterprise Voice Enterprise IP Telephony LAN Telephony (IP-only) Converged Telephony (TDM/IP) Private Branch Exchanges (PBXs) KTS/Hybrids	Total Enterprise Phones IP Phones IP Soft Phones TDM Phones VoIP Gateways - Integrated VoIP Gateways - Standalone

	Companies Tracked
	Alcatel Avaya AudioCodes Cisco DLink Ericsson Fujitsu	Goldstar LG Mitel NEC Nortel Nokia Panasonic	Polycom Phillips Motorola Symbol Samsung Siemens SpectraLink	Sphere 3Com Toshiba Vertical Cantata Cantata

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