Research and Markets: World Videoconferencing Infrastructure Markets 2010

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This strategic analysis is part of Frost & Sullivan's continued coverage of the conferencing and collaboration marketplace. Within this analysis, Frost & Sullivan has identified industry challenges, market drivers, restraints, competitive landscape, revenues, market shares and key market trends within the World videoconferencing infrastructure market. With extensive primary and secondary research, this analysis provides videoconferencing vendors with a detailed look at the current and changing dynamics in the fast evolving videoconferencing infrastructure marketplace.

This Frost & Sullivan research service titled World Videoconferencing Infrastructure Markets provides vendors with insights to expand their footprint and maximize penetration within the emerging unified communications (UC) marketplace. The scope of this research includes vendors that offer videoconferencing bridges, gateways, gatekeepers, as well as management and scheduling software.

The world videoconferencing infrastructure markets are poised to continue on the high-growth trajectory, as organizations are deploying videoconferencing not only as a means to cut travel cost in times of economic downturn, but also as a personal enabler for team collaboration within an enterprise. Videoconferencing has also witnessed huge uptake, as it facilitates rich engagements with partners, suppliers, and customers. Conferencing technologies are quickly evolving from siloed to converged solutions where data, voice, and video, presence, secure instant messaging, unified messaging, as well as voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) are merging. When tightly integrated, the combined suite is called a UC solution. Enterprise video technologies that are attracting the most attention from the market are room-based videoconferencing, mobile video, video streaming, and personal/team collaboration. Following in the footsteps of other conferencing markets, the videoconferencing infrastructure systems market is also undergoing transformation in product features, functionality, and end user needs as it evolves into a key element in implementing unified communications solutions. Demand for videoconferencing infrastructure is getting closely tied to the growth in HD endpoints and telepresence, notes the analyst of this research service. Today, a vast majority of videoconferencing deployments are happening over IP networks, creating seamless interconnectivity between H.323 and SIP-based networks as well as legacy Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) networks.