LONDON, November 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The widespread availability of low-cost, fast Internet access is drivinggrowth of new web-based services. With the advent of the Internet Protocolvideotelephony (IPVT) client software, usably quality video conferencing(previously the preserve of the corporate boardroom) is now becoming widelyavailable on the personal computer desktop.
"Despite the hype and the occasional re-launch every few years, videoconferencing has failed to move into the mainstream of businesscommunication," notes Frost & Sullivan (http://www.conferencingandcollaboration.frost.com) Senior Industry AnalystDominic Dodd. "Perhaps a little unfairly, an image of expensive butunreliable equipment remaining unused, continues to persist. The advent ofthe IPVT software client downloaded to a standard PC and utilising theInternet, is set to challenge that image."
The software-based IPVT client has only recently emerged in thecommunications space but serves as a potential threat to the long-standingvideo conferencing equipment market. At the same time, it also acts as amassive launch-pad for a new generation of video conferencing-based productsand services. The main driver is the indispensable need for face-to-facecommunication in an increasingly global market.
The IPVT client can be loaded from web sites offering a wide range ofbusiness and consumer services, as is now frequently bundled with instantmessaging (IM) and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) facilities to create acomplete, IP-based personal communications tool.
The accelerated growth of digital media and social networking in theconsumer markets, collaboration in the business space and crossover betweenthese two worlds is stimulating growth and demand for technologies such asIPVT. The technology is rapidly becoming incorporated in several desktopapplications, web-based business, as well as consumer digital media,communication, collaboration and social networking services.
The existing video conferencing industry is alert to this development,with participants adopting different strategies to replace low-end videoconferencing products, defend the position of group systems and find newvertical applications for IPVT.
However, interoperability remains a key constraint to significant massadoption, as the proprietary video coding standards being utilised by someservice providers and software vendors threatens to restrict the user to asingle community or requires them to load a different IPVT client for eachcommunity or social network they wish to join.
"The adoption of common standards for IPVT interoperability is crucial ifthere is to be mass adoption of interactive visual communications in thebusiness and consumer markets," explains Mr. Dodd. "The implementation ofopen standards developed by video conferencing offers the means of connectingthese disparate islands of users in a manner similar to that of the IMfederation, which is already successfully uniting the IM population."
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List of key industry participants: Adobe, Aduno, Airset, Alcatel,Belgacom, BT, BT Conferencing, CentralDeskTop, Cisco, Citrix Online, Comarch,Comverse Investments Ltd, Convenos, France Telecom, Genesys Conferencing,Glance, Hotwire, HP, Huawei, HyperOffice, IBM, Intel, Intercall, Interwise,Intuit Quickbase, IP Unity, Jotspot, LignUp, Marratech, Microsoft, Mitre,Motorola, NAVTEQ, Near-Time, Netconnect, Nokia, Nortel, ntl:Telewest,OpenOffice.org, OpenSpace, Orange Business Services, Polycom, Premiere GlobalServices, Radvision, SiteScape, Skype, SmileTiger, SocialText, SofTalk, Sony,Sony Europe, Sony VAIO Europe, Spirit DRP, Swisscom, Swyx, Sylantro, Syncura,Talk2theoffice,Telecom Italia, T-Systems, Ubiquity Software, Userplane,Verizon, Waggener Edstrom, WebDialogs, Webex, WiredRed
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