Enterprise Video Has Arrived: Conferencing, Telepresence and Beyond

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., U.S. Eastern Time

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Join IDC's Unified Communications analyst Jonathan Edwards for an exclusive Web conference on the state of videoconferencing and telepresence as well as IDC's outlook and forecast for these markets worldwide through 2014. Due to advancements in video and network technologies, an increasingly distributed workforce as well as the cultural adoption of services like Skype and YouTube, video has arrived and will increasingly become part of common business processes. Despite numerous hype cycles, low- to high-end videoconferencing systems (particularly IP-based) are rapidly being deployed within businesses as well as at conference facilities and hotels. IDC predicted that 2009 would be the year of the great enterprise video experiment and despite difficult economic conditions, the worldwide market for videoconferencing and telepresence grew 17% Y/Y and will eclipse the $1B mark in 2010. IDC considers its' prediction to be validated and will examine the reasons for adoption and how the scope of video from conferencing to digital signage will impact businesses and their network, communications and digital media ecosystems.

• How significant is IP video's impact on my network?
• Who are the primary providers and what are their value propositions and offerings?
• How large of a role will video have within the context of Unified Communications?
• What are the business and delivery models driving this market?
• What other applications and settings will telepresence technology be brought to in the next 3-5 years?
• When will equipment and B2B interoperability become feasible?