Enterprise Session Border Controller Market - Forecast(2024 - 2030)

The Global Enterprise Session Border Controller market size is forecast to reach $628.5 Million by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 7.3% from 2021 to 2026. Enterprise session border controller (ESBC) is capable of performing varied operations including session initiation protocol media handling and mediation along with superior VOIP network protection. Additionally, EBSC ensures remote user mobility, while improving communication enabled business processes through efficient unified communication services. High dominance of cloud based applications coupled with the rising rate of cybercrime activities have been causing a positive impact on the growth of enterprise session border controller market. Moreover, growing network security concerns across industry verticals and rise of network infrastructural advancement are also acting as major drivers towards boosting the growth of enterprise session border controller market. 

The report: “Enterprise Session Border Controller Market – Forecast (2021-2026)”, by IndustryARC covers an in-depth analysis of the following segments of the Enterprise Session Border Controller Market. 

By Capacity: upto 60 sessions, upto 200 sessions, 600 sessions, upto 1000 sessions, upto 5000 sessions, above 5000 sessions

By Function: Media services, Revenue optimization, Security, Connectivity, Quality of Service, Others

By Organization Size: Small-scale & medium sized enterprises (SMEs), Large Enterprises

By End Users: Healthcare, Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI), Media & Entertainment, IT & Telecom, Manufacturing, Government, Transportation, Others

By Geography: North America (U.S, Canada, Mexico), Europe (U.K, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Others), Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, Others), South America (Brazil, Argentina, Others), RoW (Middle East and Africa)

Large Enterprises are anticipated to witness the fastest growth in the global enterprise session border controller market, with the highest CAGR 6.3% during 2021-2026. With growing concerns over enterprise network security due to rising cybercrime activities, large enterprises face high need towards security and stabilizing their network infrastructures in order to avoid business related frauds. Adoption of enterprise session border controllers by large enterprises have been gaining wide popularity owing to its capabilities like optimum network security alongside maintaining quality of service for the industry network lines. Additionally, large organizations are getting targeted due to high-level market positions as well as various competitors, which in turn raises the demand for enhanced network controlling or management tools. Moreover, usage of such tools will be helping the large enterprises to achieve high cost efficiency standards, through minimizing costs regarding routing sessions and high bandwidth requirements. In August 2020, as per a report by an International Police agency, Interpol had revealed about cybercriminals shifting targets from small or individual firms to large companies, government agencies or critical infrastructure, in order to create greater damage as well as higher financial gain benefits. Such factors showcase the need for focusing highly towards securing enterprise networks from cybercrimes, thereby driving its market growth within large enterprises in the long run.

IT & Telecom sector is analyzed to grow with the highest CAGR 6.9% in the global enterprise border controller market during the forecast period 2021-2026. Enterprise session border controllers have emerged as an integral part of these industries owing to need for efficient and high quality communication networks. Compared to SIP models, enterprise session border controller (ESBC) ensures service providers as well as telecom operators towards conducting tracking, monitoring, analysis and related processes with high accuracy, faster speeds and lesser burden. In addition, rise of IT industries along with growing initiatives from telecom operators to support VOIP communications have been also aiding the growth of ESBC market. In February 2020, My Country Mobile General Trading had revealed its plans of offering new innovative as well as newer technologies or telecom industry. Under this, various telecommunication services including bulk SMS, VOIP Calling, SMS API, virtual phone numbers and many others will be launched by the company over the next few years. Such factors can help in driving the market growth forward in the long run.

North America region had dominated the global enterprise session border controller market with share of 38% in 2020, and is also analyzed to witness a significant growth during the forecast period 2021-2026. Rising adoption of cloud services across industry verticals, growing security concerns in enterprises and so on have attributed towards the market growth within the region. In addition, increasing demand towards network management solutions due to rising industrial growth along with growing rate of cybercrimes has been also causing a major impact for creating higher dominance towards enterprise session border controller tools. High investments from some of the leading market players like Ribbon Communications Inc., Patton Electronics with others can also impact the market growth of enterprise session border controllers in the long run. In May 2021, Ribbon Communications Inc. had revealed about getting certification for its session border controller 5400, from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). This certification was a part of securing deployment of Microsoft Teams across all DoD agencies as well as within its communication networks, thereby causing a positive impact on the adoption of enterprise session border controllers in the coming time.

The growing concerns over enterprise security have been acting as a major driver boosting the market growth of enterprise session border controller. Since various organizations have been highly adopting wide range of third party applications, data security has become a major concern. Growth of advanced technologies such as IoT, cloud with others have caused increase in organizational data along with aiding the rise of high security threats. Rising rate of cybercrimes related to security breaches through network hacking have eventually raised focus of organizations towards adopting efficient security tools to ensure network protection, thus impacting market demand for enterprise session border controller solutions. Loss of sensitive and highly critical information of organizations can cause a negative impact on their business growth as well as market position, which creates high dependency for such session controllers. Usage of enterprise session controller helps in protecting organizations from various types of malware and breach attacks more efficiently along with maintaining optimum network performance standards. In August 2021, a ransom demand of $50 million had been made by a hacker group, indulged in a ransom ware attack on a global solution provider giant, Accenture, as per reports of a cybersecurity firm. Such factors have help in impacting the adoption of enterprise session border controller through identification of denial-of-service attacks as well as other malicious attacks causing network breaches in order to avoid unauthorized access and enable optimum data protection in the long run.

Rise of network infrastructure up gradation across various industry verticals is also analyzed to be one of the major drivers of enterprise session border controller market. Owing to rising industrial growth, there is a growing shift towards advancing the network infrastructures through up gradation, as a measure of improving organizational productivity. Network management has been becoming a crucial factor towards uplifting the standards of enterprises for improving facilities such as VoIP calls or messaging, media services with many others. In September 2020, Vodafone Idea had announced about continuing its investment towards upgrading of network infrastructures along with introducing new and smart technologies, which will offer high- speed and secured connectivity. Such investments are anticipated to mark high demand towards enterprise session controller solutions in the coming time due to changing network environments, thus security improvement become essential.

High costs related to installation of enterprise session border controller is analyzed to be one of the major challenges impeding its market growth. The complexities while installing such session border controller tools across enterprises requires skilled expertise, which increase its pricing standards. Training of workforce to enable better usage of these tools adds up to the additional costs, restraining its market adoptability. Furthermore, the costs of enterprise session control softwares are incremental in nature according to the range of services required by the organizations. Since the free models are not capable of offering high benefits, switching to paid models costs highly, thus creating lesser adoption from small-scale or medium sized businesses. Such factors have been essentially hampering the growth of enterprise session border controller market.

Partnerships, acquisitions along with product launches are the key strategies of the players in the Enterprise Session Border Controller Market.

• Oracle Corporation

• Cisco Systems Inc.

• ADTRAN Inc.

• Ribbon Communications

• AudioCodes Ltd.

• Avaya

• Ingate Systems AB

• Patton Electronics

• Dialogic Corp

• Metaswitch Networks