High-Definition (HD) Voice Market worth $2.29 Billion by 2019, According to a New Study on ASDReports

Thursday 16 October 2014, Amsterdam

The report now available on ASDReports, defines and segments the global HD voice market into various sub-segments with an in-depth analysis and forecasting of market sizes. The report also identifies the factors driving the market, various restraints and opportunities impacting it along with the adoption trends.

In therecent years, mobile-broadband traffic has increased exponentially with theenhanced developments in network technology. The massive adoption of high speed broadband services has been beneficial fortelecom operators, with the emergence ofenhanced sources of income for them. The biggest challenge for the HD voice market is theincreasing competition from Over-the-Top (OTT) players, and the lack of codec interoperability which makes it difficult for telecom operators to offer traditional voice services. However, today operators are no longer the only entity dominating in the communication market. The explosive evolution of OTT players has introduced new entrants that provide voice services fundamentally free of cost.The HD voice market is consolidated with big players such as Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, Orange, Polycom, Verizon Communications, AT&T, Avaya, Deutsche Telekom, Broadcom Corporation, and Cisco Systems. The competition from these big players further makes it difficult for small vendors to enter the HD voice market.

The major factors driving this market are the increasing adoption of Voice over LTE(VoLTE), evidently changing voice usage models, growing popularity of softphone technology, and expansive on-going adoption by SMBs.

The explosive growth of OTT players is one of the restraints for the mobile operators along with limited accessibility and connectivity. Hence,cloud-based deployment services will prove to be more beneficial,and enable the operators toseize this opportunity by providing simpler solutions toenterprise users and consumers. Lower infrastructure development cost and disparity of services are another opportunity for organizations and small business units.The HD voice services suite mainly focuses on the implementation of voice applications and services that precisely replicate the human voice.

Some of the benefits thatHD voice servicesoffer to organizations includebetter understanding and clarity of voice, enhanced multi-cultural communication, and more precise transcripts.

Additionally, the benefits for the communications industry are numerous. For enterprise users and consumers, HD voice uses IP-based voice communications and wideband technology to offer high-end conferencing services.

MarketsandMarkets broadly segments the global HD voice market by regions as North America (NA), Asia-Pacific (APAC), Europe (EU), Middle East & Africa (MEA) and Latin America (LA); by applications asvideo conferencing, audio conferencing, web-conferencing, multimedia conferencing, audio broadcast, and announcement services; by access type asmobile and broadband; by user type as enterprise user and consumer.

MarketsandMarkets forecasts the Global HD voice market to grow from $815.5million in 2014 to $2,296.6million in 2019. North America is expected to be the largest market in terms of market size, while Europe and Asia-Pacific are expected to experience an increase in market traction during the forecasted period.