Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: In-Stat
Published: August 2006
Product Code: R97-2525Description Businesses are increasingly well aware of the wide array of IP voice solutions available to meet their business needs. This has resulted in strong adoption among US business overall (33%), with similar adoption among the Education market segment. This segment is slightly below the national average in adoption of IP VPN services.
To date, the Education market segment has been one of the weakest industries in converging voice, data, and video capabilities. However, Education IT managers are similarly inclined to increasingly converge network capabilities in the next 18 months, as are their counterparts in other industries.
IT expenditures in this segment are more focused on achieving competitive advantage. As competition for students increases, we anticipate continued differentiation in these areas for higher-education institutions.
In-Stat believes that in the long-term, efforts to improve employee productivity and contain costs will continue to drive increasing levels of investment in IP-based services, including multiple VoIP solutions, such as IP PBXs, as well as IP VPN. The Education sector expenditures on convergence of networks are also likely to grow closer to the national average through the next several years.
Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- Table 1. Use and Planned Use of IP VPN
- Table 2. Types of Current IP VPN Deployments (Multiple Responses Allowed)
- Table 3. Future IP VPN Deployment Plans (Multiple Responses Allowed)
- Table 4. IP VPN Displacement of Legacy WAN Services
- Table 5. “In-House” vs. Carrier Deployment of IP VPN
- Table 6. Current VoIP Adoption
- Table 7. Preferred Channel Partners for IP Solutions
- Table 8. Current Common Network Convergence of Voice, Data and Video
- Table 9. Future Convergence Plans
- Table 10. Drivers of Network Convergence
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