Matthias Machowinski Quotations

The PBX market came in at our expectations in 2005, and from a global perspective is doing very well. Worldwide revenue growth accelerated in 2005, although it's mostly coming from EMEA, Asia Pacific, and CALA. North America lost revenue share in 2005 as things slowed down here, showing just 4 percent revenue growth for the year.

WAN optimization is still a relatively small market, but it's poised for tremendous growth because it balances the desire to consolidate data centers with the need to deliver applications to an ever more distributed workforce. There was a lot of activity in the WAN optimization market last year: acquisitions, new companies entering the market, and significant growth.

You have to consider the underlying infrastructure, ... If worms and viruses bog down your network, it's a data security issue, of course, but that's also going to affect voice quality and reliability.

Problems in pinpointing where a call is coming from can arise as users move from one wireless PBX or (local area network) access point to another,

Across all business sizes, their market share is in the low single digits.

Despite the lower value ratings Cisco received in our survey this year, the truth is that organizations are reluctant to change vendors, and if they do, there has to be a very compelling case for doing so, ... Unlike in the router market, there doesn't appear to be a shake-up going on in the switch market. Vendors that make an organization's short list are likely already installed in that network.

As organizations continued to build out and upgrade their aging infrastructure, they spent more than $19 billion on enterprise routers and switches last year. Overall, the market for enterprise networking gear remains healthy, with Ethernet switches doing particularly well.