On April 10, 2012 the company Yealink, a leading manufacturer of IP-phones and VoIP communication systems, has announced the official start of sales of the new IP videophone Yealink VP530.
IDC projected over 9 billion minutes of voice traffic to travel over worldwide packet networks in 2000, exceeding 135 billion minutes in 2004. Service revenue is projected at 1.6 billion in 2000 and 18.7 billion in 2004.