Why Cisco Is Widening Its Lead In The Collaboration Market

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$9 Billion Q4

The UC&C market in Q4 nearly hit an all-time high, topping $9 billion. For the fourth quarter there was particularly strong sales growth in teamwork applications, Contact Center as a Service, and Video as a Service. UC&C revenue producers include enterprise voice, UC applications, telepresence, email software, enterprise content management, enterprise social networks and a range of hosted/cloud communications and applications.

Overall revenue from hosted/cloud solutions continues to grow strongly – up 9 percent in 2016 compared to 2015, while revenue from premise-based systems declined 4 percent year over year, according to Synergy.