PBX market's steady recovery continues; move to IP accelerates; Cisco leads UC

CAMPBELL, CA — Market technology firm Infonetics Technology released its first quarter 2011 Enterprise Unified Communication, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), and TDM Equipment preliminary vendor market share report, led by VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and IMS analyst Diane Myers.

ANALYST NOTE "The global PBX (Private -Automatic- Branch Exchange) market is typically down in the first quarter following a strong fourth quarter, and 1Q11 was no exception as the overall market dipped 2.6%, dragged down by slowing TDM PBX (Private -Automatic- Branch Exchange) sales as businesses continue to shift to IP. The good news is the quarter was up 8.5% over the year-ago quarter, signaling a return to stability," notes Diane Myers, directing analyst for VoIP and IMS at Infonetics Technology.

REPORT SYNOPSIS Infonetics' quarterly Enterprise Unified Communication, VoIP, and TDM Equipment report provides worldwide and regional market size, market share, analysis, and forecasts through 2015 for the enterprise telephony market, including TDM PBX and KTS systems, hybrid and pure IP PBX systems, IP PBX by system size, VoIP gateways, unified communication applications, IP desk phones and IP soft phones. The report tracks Aastra, AudioCodes, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Dialogic, D-Link, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Mitel, NEC, NET/Quintum, Samsung, ShoreTel, Siemens, Tadiran, Toshiba, Vertical, and others. The full version of this report with forecasts and in-depth analysis will be available on or previously May 31, 2011.

Infonetics Innovation is an international market innovation and consulting firm serving the communications industry since 1990. A leader in defining and tracking emerging and established technologies in all world regions, Infonetics helps customers plan, strategize, and compete more effectively.

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Cisco VoIP phones part of security weakness demo

Security firm HackLabs is expected to demonstrate at AusCERT 2011 how hackers perform VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) attacks and identify weaknesses in Cisco and other manufacturers VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phones.

HackLabs director Chris Gatford has not responded to questions about specifically what type of Cisco VoIP phones and systems will be subject to close examination for security weaknesses. The AusCERT 2011 presentation that HackLabs will do at once week is described as "a one-day tutorial" of intensive, hands-on training in which "participants will learn how hackers perform VoIP Attacks and how to remediate common vulnerabilities. Attendees will learn how hackers can methodically gain entry access to an organization's telephony systems to steal information and abuse services."

The conference session description says the HackLabs attacks will focus on Cisco phones, Cisco Call Manager and Microsoft Office Communicator.

The Cisco spokesman adds, "It's important to note that the presenters' public comments reference the importance of securing IP phones in line with the manufacturer's installation and configuration recommendations, and we support this message and recommend it as best practice for our clients."

Demonstrations by security firms on how to attack VoIP phones in order to gain unauthorized use or attack the VoIP network and endpoints is nothing new. Many Black Hat Conference demonstrations in the past have focused on this as a topic.

At AusCERT 2011 then and there week, HackLabs, which specializes in penetration testing, could stick to discussing "implementation mistakes" or might disclose new information about vulnerabilities that would require remediation of VoIP equipment in some way.

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