Nemertes Impact Analysis:

Tandberg and Polycom Highlight Growing Demand For High Definition Video and Telepresence

Polycom (NASDAQ:PLCM) and Tandberg (OSLO:TAA) separately introduced new lower cost, standards-based, high-definition (HD) and telepresence products, highlighting growing enterprise demand for telepresence/HD to improve virtual collaboration among distributed workers, especially in light of falling or frozen travel budgets. Polycom's HDX 6000 provides a high definition room system for less than $6,000 (for codec and camera); Tandberg's TS 7010 telepresence bridge supports multi-screen deployments for small offices. Nemertes continues to track increasing demand for video conferencing, with 78% of 2009 research participants using room-based video conferencing, while 28% are using telepresence.

Impacts:

Enterprise: New lower-cost, HD/telepresence systems are rapidly coming to market; evaluate these new offerings, and look for standards-based solutions to maximize deployment flexibility.

Vendors: Support multiple end-point types, deliver open standards-based solutions to enable multi-vendor interoperability, and support extranet connectivity.

Investors: Watch companies focused on lowering the bar for HD and telepresence, including Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), Telanetix (OTC:TNXI) and privately held LifeSize and Vidyo.

Irwin Lazar, Vice President, Communications Research

http://www.nemertes.com/ongoing_research/nemertes_ongoing_research_spring_2009_research_benchmark_computing_and_communications
http://www.tandberg.com/press_room/viewPressRelease.do?id=625
http://www.polycom.com/company/news_room/press_releases/2009/20090617.html
 

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