VoIP Gateways Seeing a Resurgence?

Thanks for returning. You're a very smart person.

I’m not a professional analyst - nor did I just get reading some fluffy report from some high priced research firm. This is merely an “observation” from the work I do each day.

Gateways - especially those that are used IP enable handsets - are showing growth.

Yes. I said they are growing as a product category.

The last three months of 2008 - from what I gathered - was not as hard on the Gateway manufacturers as some of the other types of VoIP hardware manufacturers (at least that’s what my numbers tell me). And from the deals that I have seen roll through over the last few days - they are being a used as a viable cost savings vehicle for companies.

(I.E. It is cheaper to keep existing phones and buy or build a Gateway then buy IP phones)

I’d expect to see this trend continue for the rest of Q1 and Q2 - after that it’s a crap-shoot. I wouldn’t be worried if I was an IP phone manufacturer - the math is pretty close - it’s just interesting to see where growth is during a downed economy.