Is Convergence a Fringe Market?

This IDC study analyzes the trends of the convergence market, its impact over the converged infrastructure services area, the benefits to the enterprises and end users, and the opportunities this market opens up to service players. It also explains that despite being a replacement model of legacy infrastructure, voice and data convergence represents only the starting point of the network evolution.

"In this high-growth and emerging market, the converged infrastructure services area provides high revenue opportunity to vendors, and going up the value chain, it offers continuous services such as managed services and support with a higher margin to service providers and added value to enterprises," says Lionel Lamy, research director, IDC European IT Outsourcing and Infrastructure Services.