World Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market

Frost & Sullivan, June 2011, Pages: 46

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 research service titled World Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market features market sizing, forecasts, strategic insights into the trends that are impacting the industry, and an analysis of selected competitors. In this research, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts cover the following products: multipoint control units (MCUs)-bridges/gateways and firewall traversal; scheduling and management tools; and hardware and software based MCUs.

Demand Upsurge for Cloud Based Services and Telepresence Buoys Prospects for the World Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market

During 2010, revenues in the world videoconferencing infrastructure systems reached $577.7 million, growing by a whopping 28.0 percent. The market hit record growth in 2010, as robust growth in videoconferencing and telepresence end points spurred larger infrastructure deployments. As users move to pervasive video to adopt videoconferencing as a fundamental communication tool, the market is set to maintain its strong growth momentum over the next several years. “The industry is witnessing increased spending from enterprises on conferencing tools and videoconferencing is featuring prominently in many IT budgets,” notes the analyst of this research service. “Evolving cloud-based videoconferencing services will enable end-to-end multitenant opex-based services which will fuel demand among service providers; cloud based services are expected to trigger greater penetration of videoconferencing among SMBs.” Growing unified communications (UC) deployments are enabling wider availability of video at the desktop leading to greater demand for videoconferencing infrastructure products. A dominant number of endpoints are high definition (HD)-based and they are being increasingly used in HD mode requiring upgrades to existing videoconferencing infrastructure products. Availability of a new generation of infrastructure products that can operate in low bandwidth and error prone networks are enabling broader use of videoconferencing over the public Internet.

A wave of mergers and acquisitions has reshaped the competitive landscape and resulted in the establishment of powerhouses in the videoconferencing industry. In recent weeks, Microsoft's acquisition of Skype and Polycom's acquisition of HP's Visual Collaboration Unit have been in the news. These followed on the heels of the acquisition of Tandberg by Cisco and LifeSize by Logitech, which created strong videoconferencing vendors that have the wherewithal and marketing muscle to take technology adoption mainstream.

Innovation Holds the Key to Successful Business Outcomes

Concerns regarding interoperability and B2B connectivity are prime challenges that are facing the industry, forcing vendors to innovate and develop endpoints that can operate in mixed environments. While there is considerable work that needs to be done, vendors are focusing on providing interoperability with other vendors' solutions. Service providers/carriers are introducing inter-exchange services that can connect to users on multiple networks. With a multitude of customer demands, vendors had unleashed initiatives to tackle interoperability issues. Such implementations that are in trial mode and ready to hit the implementation phase have instilled confidence in the market. Customers are more assured of interoperability among their videoconferencing investments, regardless of the device type or network provider. The continued evolution of an approach involving open standards would greatly benefit the industry.

“The market is poised for a demand upsurge and advances in the videoconferencing space are set to differentiate the most successful vendors in each region from the rest,” says the analyst. “Innovation with respect to providing video as a part of the whole gamut of UC solutions and services is vital in this domain.”

Market Sectors:

Expert Frost & Sullivan analysts thoroughly examine the following market sectors in this research:

By Geographic Region:

- Americas (North America, Central and Latin America)
- Europe
- Middle East
- Africa
- Asia Pacific
- Hardware and software based MCUs

Technologies:

The following technologies are covered in this research:

- Multipoint control units (MCUs)-bridges/gateways and firewall traversal Scheduling and management tools
- Hardware and software based MCUs

1. Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Research Scope and Methodology
1.3 Market Definitions
1.4 Market Segmentation

2. Market Overview
2.1 Market Overview
2.2 Market Engineering Measurements

3. Market Dynamics
3.1 Industry Challenges
3.2 Market Drivers
3.3 Market Restraints
3.4 Market Forces
3.5 Segment Analysis

4. Global Forecasts
4.1 Revenue Forecasts
4.2 Regional Growth Trends

5. Competitive Analysis
5.1 Market Shares –World
5.2 Market Shares –Americas
5.3 Market Shares –EMEA
5.4 Market Shares –APAC
5.5 Market Shares –MCUs
5.6 Market Shares –Non MCU Infrastructure Products
5.7 Competitive Analysis

6. Conclusions
6.1 Summary of Findings

7. About Frost & Sullivan

List of Figures:

Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Impact of Top Industry Challenges (World), 2011-2016
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Market Drivers Ranked in Order of Impact (World), 2011-2016
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Market Restraints Ranked in Order of Impact (World), 2011-2016
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Revenues by Product Segment (World), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Revenue Forecasts (World), 2009-2016
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Company Market Share by Revenues (World), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Company Market Share by Revenues (Americas), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Company Market Share by Revenues (EMEA), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Company Market Share by Revenues (APAC), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Revenue Market Shares for MCUs (World), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Revenue Market Shares for Non MCU Infrastructure Products (World), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Market Segmentation (World), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Market Engineering Measurements (World), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Key Market Forces (World), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Markets: Revenues by Product Segment (World), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Revenue Forecasts (World), 2009-2016
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Revenues and Growth by Region (World), 2009 and 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Company Market Share by Revenues (World), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Company Market Share by Revenues (Americas), 201031
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Company Market Share by Revenues (EMEA), 201032
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Company Market Share by Revenues (APAC), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Revenue Market Shares for MCUs (World), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Revenue Market Shares for Non MCU Infrastructure Products (World), 2010

List Of Charts:

Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Market Segmentation (World), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Market Engineering Measurements (World), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Key Market Forces (World), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Markets: Revenues by Product Segment (World), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Revenue Forecasts (World), 2009-2016
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Revenues and Growth by Region (World), 2009 and 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Company Market Share by Revenues (World), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Company Market Share by Revenues (Americas), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Company Market Share by Revenues (EMEA), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Company Market Share by Revenues (APAC), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Revenue Market Shares for MCUs (World), 2010
Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems Market: Revenue Market Shares for Non MCU Infrastructure Products (World), 2010

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