Frost & Sullivan says the European videoconferencing endpoints market, reached $518.3 million in 2010, growing at a rate of 20.3% from the previous year.

Reports of more volcanic activity in Iceland won’t hurt this year’s growth… Due to less travel and, in consequence, reduced number of regular in-person meetings, companies want tools that enable business relations while saving time and money. Videoconferencing comes here as a key solution.

In the next few years, this market revenue growth will be mainly driven by an increased adoption of videoconferencing Read more...

Despite video conferencing being adopted by the majority of Interop attendees, 38% of respondents indicated they lacked metrics and tools to assess video quality, according to the 5th annual study released by Network Instruments. The onsite survey of network engineers, IT managers, and executives who attend the annual Interop Las Vegas IT conference found:

Widespread Video Adoption: 81% deploy some form of videoconferencing. The majority of respondents have multiple deployments throughout their organization, including desktop video (62%), standard Read more...

When Apple launched iPhone 4 in June 2010, it placed a new challenge in front of the Android pack: providing video calling services.

While Apple is capable of providing its own closed-garden end-to-end video calling service, called FaceTime, and make it run on mobile handsets, laptops and (in the future) tablets… doing the same on Android isn't that easy.

There are technical challenges of adding real-time video telephony on Android. But there are business challenges, as well-- challenges bound to put strains on the Android ecosystem.

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The first IP software Skype gateway on the market, MESSiX (Multiline Enterprise Software Skype Exchange) is a Skype-to-VoIP system that connects Skype network with H.323 and SIP networks.

A software solution that runs on a single computer, MESSiX works as a router that should be placed between Skype and H.323 or SIP networks. It supports up to 32 concurrent lines.

An audio or video call can be placed to anyone (PSTN or remote user with Skype) directly from the employee desk phone or from a video conferencing room and as simple as a standard Read more...