Abstract
This report has been designed specifically to fill the needs of users and managers of real-time conferencing and collaboration applications, this 250-page book provides a technology & standards overview; summarizes the 55 leading vendors of audio, video, and web conferencing systems and services; and contains over 90 pages of product matrices.
Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- INDUSTRY OVERVIEW - 2006
- MARKET OVERVIEW - INFRASTRUCTURE
- MARKET OVERVIEW - VIDEOCONFERENCING ENDPOINTS
- MARKET OVERVIEW - CONFERENCING SERVICES
- MAJOR TRENDS IN VIDEO ENDPOINTS
- MAJOR TRENDS IN CONFERENCING SERVICES
- MAJOR TRENDS IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE SEGMENT
CHAPTER 2 - MARKET & TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW
- MARKET SEGMENTS
- AUDIO CONFERENCING BRIDGES
- WEB / DATA CONFERENCING SERVERS
- VIDEOCONFERENCING PRODUCT SEGMENTS
- NEW CONFERENCING & COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGIES
- VIDEOCONFERENCING MCUS
- SIP PROTOCOLS
- PSTN TO IP VIDEO GATEWAYS
- IP VIDEO GATEKEEPERS
- IM / PRESENCE SERVERS
- MEDIA SERVERS
- INFRASTRUCTURE DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS
- NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES
- SERVICE SEGMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES
- NEW TRENDS IN COLLABORATION SERVICES
- MULTIMEDIA SERVICES
- CHANNEL STRUCTURE
- STANDARDS BODIES
- DEFINITIONS
CHAPTER 3 - REVIEW OF VENDORS
- ACT TELECONFERENCING
- AETHRA
- ALCATEL
- AREL COMMUNICATIONS AND SOFTWARE
- ARKADIN SA
- AT&T TELECONFERENCE SERVICES (PRE-MERGER WITH SBC)
- AVAYA
- BRITISH TELECOM CONFERENCING
- BROOKTROUT
- CENTRA SOFTWARE
- CISCO SYSTEMS
- CODIAN
- COMPUNETIX INC
- CONFERENCE PLUS
- CONVEDIA
- DATA CONNECTION LTD
- DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG
- DST MEDIA
- FRANCE TELECOM
- GENESYS CONFERENCING
- GLOBAL CROSSING CONFERENCING
- GLOWPOINT
- HUAWEI
- IBM LOTUS SOFTWARE
- INTERCALL
- INTERWISE
- IP UNITY
- JABBER, INC
- KEDACOM
- KPN
- LIFESIZE
- MACROMEDIA, INC
- MCI CONFERENCING(PRE-INTEGRATION WITH VERIZON)
- MICROSOFT
- NTT BIZLINK, INC
- ORACLE CORPORATION
- PACTOLUS
- POLYCOM
- PREMIERE GLOBAL SERVICES
- RADVISION
- RAINDANCE COMMUNICATIONS
- SONEXIS, INC
- SONY
- TANDBERG
- TELSTRA CONFERENCING
- UBIQUITY
- V2 TECHNOLOGY, INC
- VAPPS, INC
- VTEL PRODUCTS CORPORATION
- WEBDIALOGS, INC
- WEBEX COMMUNICATIONS
- WIRE ONE COMMUNICATIONS
- WIREDRED SOFTWARE CORPORATION
- ZOOM MULTIMEDIA
- ZTE
- OTHER SUPPLIERS
APPENDIX 1 - INFRASTRUCTURE PRODUCT MATRICES
APPENDIX 2 - ENDPOINT PRODUCT MATRICES
APPENDIX 3 - LISTING OF SERVICE PROVIDERS
List of Figures & Tables
- Figure 1 Rich Media Conferencing Market Segments
- Figure 2 Videoconferencing endpoint segmentation
- Figure 3 Enterprise personal endpoint categories
- Figure 4 Four Phases, Three Transitions of the User
- Figure 5 Forecast transition to IP conferencing services
- Figure 6 CSP Market Segmentation
- Figure 7 Rich Media Conferencing Market Segments
- Figure 8 Web conferencing and PSTN architecture
- Figure 9 Videoconferencing endpoint segmentation
- Figure 10 Enterprise personal endpoint categories
- Figure 11 Television standards
- Figure 12 Pixel resolution for different image standards
- Figure 13 Monitor size vs image resolution vs viewing distance
- Figure 14 Four image resolutions (courtesy TANDBERG)
- Figure 15 H323 MCUs can be configured in LAN or WAN locations
- Figure 16 Functions of a Gateway
- Figure 17 The Virtual Team Process
- Figure 18 IP Media Server Configuration with Conferencing (source: Convedia)
- Figure 19 Components of an IP Media Server Platform (source: Convedia)
- Figure 20 Three implementations of conferencing services
- Figure 21 The transformation of enterprise networks
- Figure 22 Three tools for network quality of service
- Figure 23 Network address translation
- Figure 24 Forecast transition to IP conferencing services
- Figure 25 CSP Market Segmentation
- Figure 26 Channel Structure
- Figure 27 ITU-T Multimedia Conferencing Umbrella Standards; * = Mandatory
