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AudioCodes helps enterprises and telecom service providers connect their telephone networks to communications platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom Phone. It supplies the equipment and software that connect these systems, manages deployments, and offers applications for contact centers, recording and workplace productivity. Its VoiceAI Connect platform also links enterprise telephony with conversational AI.
Customers buy equipment and software alongside maintenance and implementation services, or pay monthly subscriptions for managed offerings such as AudioCodes Live. Services account for slightly more revenue than products. Most enterprise sales pass through resellers, systems integrators and distributors, although AudioCodes also works directly with selected customers on complex deployments. Westcon and ScanSource are major customers that distribute its products rather than use them internally, making their purchases important to revenue.
Most revenue still comes from systems deployed at customer premises, while customers and partners are moving toward cloud services. Demand depends partly on AudioCodes keeping its products compatible with partners’ platforms, particularly Microsoft Teams, and on customers adopting its cloud offerings.
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AudioCodes also depends on adoption of partner platforms such as Zoom Phone and Genesys, neither of which appears in this list.
Ribbon Communications Inc. competes with AudioCodes for enterprise and service-provider spending on equipment that connects voice networks, including session border controllers and enterprise gateways. Watch Ribbon’s Cloud and Edge business for the shift from legacy telephone hardware to cloud software and hybrid deployments—the same market in which AudioCodes sells connectivity products.
Sangoma Technologies Corporation competes with AudioCodes for business customers buying voice gateways, network connectivity and enterprise communications. Its sales of connectivity products and communications subscriptions are more relevant to AudioCodes than its broader customer count.
Microsoft’s Teams Phone adoption supports demand for AudioCodes’ paid phone-connectivity and managed services, but Microsoft Copilot for Teams competes with AudioCodes’ Meeting Insights. Watch changes to Teams offerings and partner requirements: AudioCodes needs its products to remain compatible as enterprise customers move to cloud communications.
Cisco competes with AudioCodes for enterprise voice-network spending, including equipment that connects telephone networks—session border controllers and gateways—while its Webex platform also supports a market for AudioCodes services. Webex Calling developments matter because AudioCodes sells monthly managed services for that platform.
Oracle competes directly with AudioCodes for enterprise purchases of equipment that connects voice networks, known as session border controllers. Oracle’s activity in those deployments is the relevant overlap, rather than its much broader cloud, software and hardware businesses.
Twilio competes with AudioCodes for businesses connecting telephone calls to conversational AI: Twilio sells programmable voice connections, while AudioCodes offers VoiceAI Connect. Watch Twilio’s voice-connectivity products and their use in AI applications, rather than its messaging and email businesses.
RINGCENTRAL, INC. competes for enterprise contact-center spending with AudioCodes’ Voca CIC and managed contact-center services. Its subscription-based RingCentral Contact Center and RingCX offerings are the products to watch for this overlap, rather than its overall cloud-communications sales.
AudioCodes depends on Texas Instruments for all its digital signal processor chips, so supply interruptions could disrupt production of its communications equipment. Watch availability of those chips: AudioCodes says its inventory would likely be insufficient if it had to switch suppliers.
Texas Instruments Incorporated earningsTXN
Texas Instruments' report can offer clues about chip demand and supply conditions; AudioCodes relies on it for digital signal processors used in its communications equipment.
Watch Texas Instruments' comments on chip demand, capacity and supply, but do not treat its overall chip business as a promise about the processors AudioCodes uses. Stable conditions would ease concern about broad shortages, not prove AudioCodes has enough supply. If supply tightens, AudioCodes says its inventory would likely be insufficient to switch suppliers, leaving production and deliveries more exposed.
RINGCENTRAL, INC. earningsRNG
RingCentral's report can show demand for its contact-center products, which compete for the same enterprise spending as AudioCodes' Voca CIC and managed contact-center services.
Focus on what RingCentral says about RingCentral Contact Center and RingCX subscriptions; its overall cloud-communications results are not a substitute for contact-center demand. Strength in those products would show businesses are still paying for this category, while AudioCodes would still face competition for that spending. Weakness could mean a smaller budget pool for AudioCodes' Voca CIC and managed services to pursue.
Ribbon Communications Inc. earningsRBBN
Ribbon Communications' report can show whether enterprises and service providers are spending on voice-network equipment and cloud or hybrid connections where it competes with AudioCodes.
Read Ribbon Communications' Cloud and Edge performance and its comments on cloud and hybrid deployments as signals about a shared market, not as a direct measure of AudioCodes' sales. Strength would suggest customers are still spending on network connections and the transition, leaving demand AudioCodes can pursue. Weakness could indicate slower spending or a faster move away from equipment, putting more pressure on its connectivity products.
Microsoft Corp earningsMSFT
Microsoft's report can reveal changes in Teams cloud communications and partner direction, which matter to AudioCodes' paid connectivity and managed services for Teams Phone.
Watch Microsoft's comments on Teams cloud communications, Teams Phone adoption and partner requirements. Continued promotion with AudioCodes products remaining compatible would preserve a customer route for its paid connectivity and managed services. A change in Microsoft's direction or requirements that makes compatibility harder could narrow that route and require AudioCodes to adapt.
AudioCodes Ltd earningsThis company
AudioCodes' report will show whether service revenue and service margins can keep pace with equipment sales as the business shifts toward cloud communications.
Compare service revenue and service gross margin with product revenue and product gross margin. Growing service revenue with a steady service margin would show subscriptions and managed services are carrying more of the business without delivery costs eroding the gain. If services grow little or their margin falls while products still carry revenue, AudioCodes remains exposed to equipment sales or rising service-delivery costs.
Twilio Inc. earningsTWLO
Twilio's report can offer clues about demand for connecting phone calls to conversational AI, where its programmable voice products compete with AudioCodes' VoiceAI Connect.
Focus on Twilio's comments about programmable voice connections and their use in AI applications, not its messaging, email or overall results. Growth in the relevant voice business would show companies are spending on this AI connection use case, giving AudioCodes' VoiceAI Connect a clearer market opportunity—but also competition. Weak demand would suggest a more limited pool of customer budgets and projects for AudioCodes to pursue.
