There are tons of stats this week from the research house iLocus. On the carrier side, iLocus counted $2.2 billion in softswitch and media gateway sales last year, up 24 percent from 2005. There were 36.9 million Class 5 softswitch licenses, 34.8 Class 4 softswitch licenses, and 48.2 million service provider media gateway ports sold worldwide. Nortel [1] leads the Class 5 market, followed by Siemens [2]; Huawei leads the Class 4 business. Acme Packet [3] leads the SBC market; Radisys leads the IP media gateway business. Overall, 1.079 trillion minutes of VoIP traffic were served last year--382.3 billion local, 614.4 billion national long distance, and 82.6 billion international LD. The report has lots more detail; it's worth checking out if you're a figures geek.

For more information about the iLocus 2006 VoIP stats:
- read this report [4] from WebWire