LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Recent acquisitions by Microsoft for Skype, Polycom for HP’s Visual Collaboration Unit and previous acquisitions of Tandberg by Cisco and LifeSize by Logitech have created strong videoconferencing vendors, ready to take on a rapidly increasing global market. In 2010, the videoconferencing market grew by 28% to total US$577.7Mn. Cloud-based videoconferencing services enable end-to-end multitenant opex-based services, fuelling demand for these solutions within small to medium sized companies.
World Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market
The industry is seeing a greater demand for videoconferencing infrastructure products as a result of increasing unified communications (UC) deployments which are enabling a wider availability of video usage at the desktop level. The new generation of videoconferencing infrastructure products are able to operate across the public Internet due to their low bandwidth needs and the availability of error prone networks.
B2B connectivity and interoperability are two of the prime challenges facing the videoconferencing industry. To counter these issues, service providers or carriers are introducing inter-exchange services which enable users to connect across multiple networks.
Recent acquisitions in the videoconferencing sector are creating a number of powerhouses. Microsoft has recently acquired Skype with Polycom’s acquisition of HP’s Visual Collaboration Unit also signalling further consolidation of the industry. These new acquisitions have followed on from mergers between Tandberg and Cisco in addition to LifeSize and Logitech.
The videoconferencing sector is seeing a move towards HD technology which is driving upgrades in the infrastructure used by clients and hence increasing revenue potentials for companies offering HD based solutions.
This new World Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market report provides expert analysis on the recent developments in videoconferencing across the regions Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. The report covers 46 pages of market information and analysis, including competitive analysis and forecast information. Forecasts in the videoconferencing trends cover the period 2011 to 2016.