This Frost & Sullivan research service titled Analysis of the Global Videoconferencing Infrastructure Market provides industry challenges, market drivers, restraints, competitive landscape, and growth opportunities within the videoconferencing market. With extensive primary and secondary research, this analysis provides vendors with a detailed look at the dynamics of the fast evolving videoconferencing infrastructure space. In this research, Frost & Sullivan's examines the following markets:

Multipoint control units (MCUs)

• Standalone bridges

Non-MCU (gateways, gatekeepers, firewall traversal, management and scheduling software, streaming and content management servers)

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Market Overview

Improved Interoperability to Sustain the Growth of the Videoconferencing Infrastructure Market

Continuous Need to Support a Wide Variety of End Points for an Increasing Number of Users Boosts Market

The heady pace of the global videoconferencing infrastructure market reached an inflection point in 2010, when it experienced record growth. However, 2011 was the year videoconferencing infrastructure technology developments broke new barriers to gain more robust capabilities and flexible deployment options. “Emerging prospects in mobile and desktop video and integration with Unified Communication solutions are stoking demand for videoconferencing infrastructure,” says the analyst of this research. “The ability to offer an end-to-end portfolio, either directly or through partnerships, has become a necessity, especially for smaller vendors.”

On the flip side, costly upgrades to support new components and capabilities, as well as the cost of bandwidth consumption hamper the pervasive use of videoconferencing. Further, concerns about the ease of use and management, as well as interoperability of multi-vendor solutions and new technology with legacy products restrain its widespread adoption. Some of these issues can be assuaged by transitioning from the traditional hardware-based business model to the more dynamic and flexible software and services models.

Virtualization and cloud are two of the biggest trends this year. Software-based components, cloud services, and bandwidth management will change the market as we know it today. They have the potential to lower entry barriers while posing strategic risk to established business models. Further, they could reduce the total cost of ownership and enable more pervasive deployment among organizations of all sizes.

Market Sectors

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

Multipoint control units (MCUs)

• Standalone bridges

Non-MCU (gateways, gatekeepers, firewall traversal, management and scheduling software, streaming and content management servers)

Technologies

The following technologies are covered in this research:

• Unified Communications
• Video conferencing
• Audio conferencing
• Web conferencing

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