Integrated Research to triple addressable market for VoIP management software

Stuart Corner
Monday, 13 November 2006 10:01

Business IT - Technology

Integrated Research (ASX: IPI) is to port Prognosis, its software for managing large scale Cisco VoIP networks, to three other leading vendors, effectively tripling its addressable market.

The company says that, over the next 12 months Prognosis will be extended to work on Avaya, Alcatel and Nortel installations.  It says that the impetus for this initiative comes from current users of Prognosis who are looking to: eliminate the need to procure and maintain multiple, IP-PBX specific management tools; reduce the time and expense involved in training network operations staff to use differing solutions; give operations staff a single, consistent view across all their disparate VoIP environments.

According to Frost & Sullivan’s 2005 enterprise telephony systems market report, Avaya and Nortel’s combined share of the North American market is 38.8 percent. IPI notes that, if added to Cisco’s 19.8 percent share this represents a total of 58.5 percent across all three vendors. "In Europe, Alcatel has a significant share of the rapidly emerging VoIP market."

Prognosis is billed as "a comprehensive suite of lifecycle management software products spanning network-readiness assessment, pre-deployment assurance testing, and ongoing performance management for IP communications environments. It is claimed to manage more than 200 of the world’s largest implementations of Cisco CallManager.