The session border controller market is seeing benefits from the increased adoption of SIP trunking and emerging wireless Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services. According to a new Dell'Oro Group report, SBC and IMS Core revenues together rose nearly 23 percent year-over-year.
Although consumer and business usage of voice services on a per-usage basis continues to decline, Chris DePuy, VP of carrier IP telephony research at Dell'Oro Group, said in a release that VoLTE, voice over Wi-Fi, SIP trunking and the service provider movement to carry VoIP "are expected to push growth in Session Border Controllers, Voice Application Servers and IMS Core." Release