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Video Conferencing Software Client - Market InsightPublished by: Frost & Sullivan Published: Oct. 19, 2006 Table of Contents
1. Executive Summary 1. Executive Summary 2. Methodology 2. Introduction 1. Introduction 1. Introduction 2. Product overview 3. Drivers and Challenges 1. Challenges, Drivers and Restraints 1. Globalization and Macroeconomic Trends 2. Processes and Efficiencies 3. Cost 4. Technology Infrastructures 5. Standardisation 2. Assessment of Challenges and Constraints 1. Challenges and Restraints 4. Industry Analysis 1. Industry Analysis 1. Introduction 2. Bargaining Power of Suppliers 3. Bargaining Power of Buyers 4. Threat of New Entrants 5. Threat of New Substitutes 6. Industry Competitiveness 5. PESTEL Analysis 1. PESTEL Analysis 1. Introduction 2. Analysis 6. Video Conferencing Industry 1. Video Conferencing Industry 1. Introduction 2. Product Segments 3. Introduction of the IPVT Software Client 4. Strategies of Various Video Conferencing Companies 5. Future of Product Segment 7. Impact on the Consumer Space 1. Impact on the Consumer Space 1. Introduction 2. Social Networks 3. Online via TV 4. Opportunities in the Online Games Industry 5. The Education Sector 6. Telemedicine 7. Disabled Users 8. Opportunities for Mass Adoption 8. Impact on the Enterprise Segment 1. Impact on the Enterprise Segment 1. Introduction 2. The On-premise Deployment Option 3. The Service Provider Option 4. Managed Service Offering 9. The Impact on the Infrastructure and Network Providers 1. The Impact on the Infrastructure and Network Providers 1. Introduction 2. Enterprise Infrastructure Manufacturers 3. Network Service Providers 10. Industry Participants 1. Industry Participants 1. Avaya 2. Logitech 3. Visual Nexus 4. ntl:Telewest 5. Polycom 6. Sony Electronics 7. Skype 8. Tandberg 9. WiredRed 11. Conclusions 1. Conclusions 1. Conclusions and Observations 12. Case Study - ntl: Telewest 1. ntl: Telewest 1. The Transition from Working Group to Genuine Team AbstractThis market study reviews the development and impact of a new class of PC-based communications technology: the IP (Internet Protocol) Videotelephony software client. This software application provides a means for interactive, two-way personal visual communications across the Internet and is rapidly being deployed by companies operating in both the business-to-business and consumer markets. A variety of different commercial models are considered, including the use of the technology as an enabler in the social networking consumer space. The study also reviews the impact of the technology on the existing video conferencing industry, and reviews opportunities for new services in both consumer and B2B areas.Research Overview This Frost & Sullivan market insight titled Video Conferencing Software Client provides a market overview of the development of the IPVT client. It offers an assessment of its impact on the existing video conferencing industry, as well as the burgeoning consumer market for online personal and social communication and interaction. Market Sectors Expert Frost & Sullivan analysts thoroughly examine the following market sectors in this research:
IPVT Client Software to Boost Business and Consumer Communication Applications The widespread availability of low-cost, fast Internet access is driving growth of new web-based services. With the advent of the Internet Protocol videotelephony (IPVT) client software, usably quality video conferencing, previously the preserve of the corporate boardroom, is now becoming widely available on the personal computer desktop. The software-based IPVT client has only recently emerged in the communications space but serves as a potential threat to the long-standing video conferencing equipment market. At the same time, it also acts as a massive launch-pad for a new generation of video conferencing-based products and services. The IPVT client can be loaded from web sites offering a wide range of business and consumer services, as is now frequently bundled with instant messaging (IM) and VoIP facilities to create a complete, IP-based personal communications tool. "The rapid growth of digital media and social networking in the consumer markets, collaboration in the business space and crossover between these two worlds is stimulating growth and demand for technologies like IPVT," remarks senior industry analyst Dominic Dodd. "The technology is becoming incorporated in several desktop applications, web-based business, as well as consumer digital media, communication, collaboration and social networking services." Adoption of Common Standards for IPVT Interoperability Essential Despite the hype and the occasional re-launch every few years, video conferencing has failed to move into the mainstream of business communication. Perhaps a little unfairly, an image of expensive but unreliable equipment, remaining unused, continues to persist. The advent of the IPVT software client, downloaded to a standard PC and utilising the Internet is set to challenge that image. The existing video conferencing industry is alert to this development, with the participants adopting different strategies to replace low-end video conferencing products, defend the position of group systems and find new vertical applications for IPVT. Currently, interoperability remains a key constraint to significant mass adoption, as the proprietary video coding standards being utilised by some service providers and software vendors threaten to restrict the user to a single community or requires them to load a different IPVT client for each community or social network they wish to join. "The adoption of common standards for IPVT interoperability is crucial if there is to be mass adoption of interactive visual communications in the business and consumer markets," explains Mr. Dodd. "The implementation of open standards developed by video conferencing offers the means of connecting these disparate islands of users in a manner similar to that of the IM federation, which is already successfully uniting the diverse IM population." Get Full Details About This Report >> |
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