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Global 1H07 Voice/Unified Messaging Unit Sales Up 7.3%

Parsippany, NJ, February 1, 2008 -- According to the latest “InfoTrack for Converged Applications” market-research report from The Telecom Intelligence Group, during the first half of 2007, global messaging market growth was up 7.3 percent (in terms of mailboxes) and 19.3 percent (in terms of revenue due to unified-messaging shipments) compared with the first six months of 2006.

The total number of worldwide mailbox shipments topped 11.4 million last year.

The recently released report, “First-Half 2007 Global Messaging Mailbox and System Shipments,” also pegs Nortel as the lead manufacturer globally for both voice and unified messaging sales. Avaya was a close second in both categories, and it’s the leading supplier in the United States. Globally, Nortel, Avaya and Cisco own more than 56 percent of the messaging market, in terms of revenues.

The United States continues to be the largest customer for unified-messaging mailboxes.

“U.S. and Canadian mailbox-to-telephony-line ratios exceeded other regions by a factor of three, due in part to the greater acceptance of messaging by users and the sale of messaging as a separate system by some vendors’ resellers, including those representing Samsung and Toshiba,” comments Mike O’Neill, vice president and publisher, The Telecom Intelligence Group. “The lower rate outside the United States is due in part to less sophistication – often the messaging system is only used as an answering system – and competition from carriers and from messaging-only system providers.”

In addition, “First-Half 2007 Global Messaging Mailbox and System Shipments” indicates Cisco, Avaya and other vendors are bundling voice messaging and unified messaging into a unified-communications package to promote increased acceptance, a trend that will continue to grow.

For more information on this report, click on www.telecomweb.com/ICAGlobal1H07 or contact Mike O’Neill at moneill@telecomweb.com or at 973/602-0114. 

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