An article published last Friday in the French Qui Fait Quoi Daily forecasts that the videoconferencing market will experience a growth of 27% over the next few years. The Wainhouse Research study reveals that the traditional videoconferencing industry has experienced five consecutive quarters of unit growth, driven by increase in sales as well as technology maturation.

"We're finally beginning to see some traction in running rich media conferencing and collaboration over IP networks," states Andrew W. Davis, managing partner at Wainhouse Research. "The fear of running real-time communications over the enterprise LAN is beginning to dissipate, at the same time that web conferencing and instant messaging are changing the rich media conferencing paradigm. The bottom line is that the products and services have improved continuously and are now able to overcome the behavioral and psychological issues associated with video to the enterprise desktop."

At CEV, we were well aware of this fact. We are one of the main integrators of videoconference systems in Canada and our figures are in accordance with those of the study. The migration towards IP networks is in full swing & CEV is amongst the leaders. Visit our videoconferencing section for more information on solutions and available services.

Click here to read the original Wainhouse Research press release.

[August 16, 2004]