The enterprise telephony market is expected to decline to $8 billion in 2019, according to by Dell’Oro Group.
Enterprises continue to transition IT dollars away from premise solutions and towards the Cloud and we remain surprised that only a few premises-based vendors have significant revenue from Cloud offerings, with the remaining premises vendors being slow to create such offerings.
“During the next five years, we expect vendors to focus heavily on the Cloud market and to look at both selling equipment to support Cloud build-outs and towards creating stand-alone Cloud offerings,” said Alan Weckel, vice president of Enterprise Telephony market research at Dell’Oro Group.
The report said that IP phone growth will continue each year during the forecast period from both PBX vendors such as Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, Avaya, and Cisco as well as from third party handset makers such as Polycom and Grandstream.
