AN ANALYSIS OF GATEWAY, CPE, & WIRELESS CHIP MARKET OPPORTUNITIES

Report No: 2201

Forward Concepts, the premier market research company tracking digital signal processing (DSP) markets, is offering this detailed report on the market opportunities for DSP technology in the fast-growing Internet Protocol (IP) Telephony market. It is clear that packet-switched telephony will eventually surpass the circuit-switched technology of today’s public telephone network. This trend is providing long-term opportunities in many market segments, enabling both large and small companies to provide programmable or embedded DSP chip products.

This report explains the advantages of packet voice technology and details the market that began with hobbyist use of personal computers with the Internet for free long distance phone calls to the billion-dollar-plus market it has become. To provide you with an understanding of the deployment of IP Telephony on a worldwide basis, the report provides tutorials covering both the hardware and the necessary software protocols and standards. The market “food chain” is described from the chip level through the board level, the system level, and eventual carrier deployment.

The DSP technology requirements for a single-line IP phone are radically different from that of a carrier-class media gateway that may handle a thousand or more voice channels. The several DSP chip classes that serve these market segments are described separately, and projected markets included scale from single-line customer premises equipment (CPE) to large gateways.

DSP TYPES COVERED

• Programmable DSP Chips
• DSP Chips Specifically for Packet Voice
• DSP Cores for VoIP
• Access Communication Processors

DSP MARKETS THROUGH 2006

(ports, units, & revenue)

• Access Communication Processor DSP Market
• Cable VoIP Client Gateway DSP Market
• Cellular Packet Voice DSP Market
• DSP Board/Module Market
• Internet Telephony Access Appliance DSP Market
• IP PBX Gateway/Phone DSP Market
• VoDSL Integrated Access Device (IAD) DSP Market
• VoIP Media Access Gateway DSP Market
• VoIP Remote Access Concentrator/Server DSP Market
• Wireless LAN IP Telephony DSP Market
• Wireless Local Loop (WLL) IP Telephony DSP Market
  

TOPICS COVERED

• Basic IP Telephony Operation
• DSP Operations Required for Packet Voice
• Emerging Packet Voice Applications
• Gatekeepers
• International Standards
• IP PBX (VoIP over LAN)
• IP Telephony Access Appliances
• Market Dynamics/Driving Forces
• Media Gateways
• Media Gateways
• Primary IP Telephony Protocols
• Regulatory Barriers
• Remote Access Concentrators/Servers
• Speech Coding Considerations
• Voice over DSL (VoDSL)
• VoIP over Cable
• VoIP over Cellular (2.5G & 3G)
• VoIP over Wireless LANs
• VoIP over Wireless Local Loop

PROFILES OF DSP CHIP & IP SUPPLIERS

• 3DSP Corp.
• Agere Systems
• Alchemy Semiconductor/AMD
• Analog Devices
• Audiocodes Ltd.
• BOPS, Inc.
• Broadcom
• Centillium
• Conexant/Mindspeed
• DSP Group/Voicepump
• Globespanvirata
• Improv Systems
• Infineon Technologies
• Intel Corp.
• Ishoni Networks
• LSI Logic
• Mapletree Networks
• Motorola
• Netergy Microelectronics
• Realchip
• STMicroelectronics
• Texas Instruments

Who will benefit from this report?

Chip Vendors
Clearly, this report will most benefit integrated circuit vendors serving or planning to serve VoIP and packet voice markets. With long-term growth prospects much brighter than for most chip products, it is critical for any chip vendor to understand what is necessary to succeed in IP Telephony. This report can be an indispensable resource in providing direction for your company.

System Houses
As a board-, module- or system-level manufacturer, you need to understand both the system market that affects your sales and the chip market dynamics that affect both your component selections as well as your own future product direction. This report can be a significant resource in your product planning.

Strategic Product & Market Planners
This report provides valuable insight into the overall IP Telephony market direction. Understanding the role of packet voice in transforming the worldwide public telephone network is critical in long-term strategic planning. The detailed forecasts will help you in preparing your own business plans.

Marketing and Sales Executives
Knowledge of competitive product offerings and market strengths of other companies prepares for positioning of your own company’s products in the marketplace. This report can provide you with a quick understanding of the market dynamics that can affect your company’s future direction.

About the Author:
Will Strauss, President of Forward Concepts, is the primary author of this report. Mr. Strauss is an internationally-recognized authority on markets driven by digital signal processing (DSP) Technology. Prior to founding Forward Concepts, he was Executive VP of In-Stat, Inc. and was earlier VP of Market Research for Integrated Circuit Engineering Corp. He has work in communications design, marketing and sales. He has an Electrical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech and a Masters degree in business from Southern Methodist University.

Galina Neumeier, a Forward Concepts associate, is an independent market consultant and contributor to this report. She has an Electrical Engineering degree from Tel-Aviv University.

Size
212 pages, 44 Figures, 42 In-Depth Tables, Extensive Glossary and Index

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