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Polycom CMA Highlights Growth of Desktop Video Conferencing

Polycom (NASDAQ:PLCM) introduced "Converged Management Application" comprised of tools for video conferencing management, and a desktop application for scalable high definition desktop video conferencing.

Fifty-one percent of participants in the upcoming Nemertes' benchmark, Unified Communications and Collaboration, say that their organizations are adopting desktop video conferencing for collaboration among virtual workers, up from 30% in 2007. The Nemertes' Market Analysis, Video Conferencing, notes growth in high definition video conferencing offerings.

Impacts:

Enterprises: Look at desktop video conferencing to improve collaboration and reduce travel costs, but be aware of bandwidth requirements to support HD. Plan to integrate desktop video conferencing with your room-based systems.

Vendors: Interoperability is a key enterprise requirement, be sure your video solutions interoperate with existing and planned enterprise platforms.

Investors: Declining travel budgets should lead to more investments in video to enable improved collaboration without the need to travel. Follow industry leaders including Avistar (NASDAQ:AVSR), TANDBERG (Oslo:TAA.OL)as well as privately held startups such as BrightcCom, Dialcom, HearMe, and Vidyo.

http://www.nemertes.com/market_analyses/nemertes_market_analysis_video_conferencing_0

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0419462.htm

Irwin Lazar, Principal Research Analyst
and Program Director