Vidyo Offers 2010 Predictions

As the first decade of the millennium comes to a close, Vidyo (News - Alert) believes that change is on the horizon in the videoconferencing market as we enter 2010 and in a good way.

 

Vidyo’s predictions for the coming year are as follows:

 

1. 2010 will be the first year when corporate funded, large-scale desktop solutions will be the largest market growth segment in videoconferencing.

 

2. Unified Communications (News - Alert) and social media platforms will include a videoconferencing function, and by the end of the year, no market leader offering will be available without video.

 

3. Error-resilient multipoint videoconferencing will emerge as a killer app for 3G/4G wireless networks.

 

4. The H.264/SVC standard will be embraced by many videoconferencing vendors, but successfully delivered by the few who can eliminate the MCU.

 

5. New market entrants will announce exciting SVC-enabled videoconferencing solutions and services.

 

6. The broadcast world will begin to embrace H.264/SVC to reshape broadcast television delivery.

 

7. The economics associated with operating costs – network expense, the need for managed services and ongoing maintenance – will become a primary buying criterion in the purchase of room systems that can provide telepresence-like audio and video quality.

 

8. Enterprise-quality desktop videoconferencing software will become part of the solution for decreasing the cost and raising the quality of healthcare in the United States.

 

9. Religious organizations and churches will use desktop videoconferencing to change the way they communicate and extend their reach.

 

10. Higher education, government continuity and recovery plans, and the broadband build-out to rural communities, funded by President Barack Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will create stimulus for growth in desktop videoconferencing.

 

Do you have your own predictions on the future of videoconferencing? I have mine, which I reveal in a New Year’s Eve Readerboard blog just before the magic ball drops in Times Square but I will say this: the attempted bombing of Flight 253 and the resulting travel restrictions are the last straw.

 

The added, if arguably needed measures, when combined with the need to cut costs and improve productivity by minimizing travel, and with more people working from home, plus the benefits of going green, are pushing more organizations to buy these solutions.