Teleprecense systems, like HP’s Halo are forecasted to grow 21. Enterprise group video conferencing systems are forecast to grow at 18% over the next 5 years, twice what the growth rate has been in the last decade. The market for enterprise personal videoconferencing units is forecast to increase much more quickly, predictions indicate it could exceed 50% per year. This rapid increase is driven by multiple factors: adoption of unified communications, the drive to reduce corporate travel, and the emergence of a new class of high performance systems, and an industry push to go green. The overall endpoint market will grow from $1.3B in 2007 to over $4.9B in 2013.

Enterprise Videoconferencing Endpoints and Infrastructure is a 96-page report that includes a complete and detailed product forecast, historical market trends and figures, and a description of the 12 major drivers, as identified by Wainhouse Research, that are taking videoconferencing into the enterprise mainstream.

The report also includes a short description of thirty vendors identified by Wainhouse Research as leaders, influencers, and contenders in the market. Vendors profiled include Adobe, Aethra, AVCON, Avistar, Cisco, Compunetix, Dialcom, DVE, Emblaze-VCON, HP, Huawei, IBM Lotus, IOCOM, Kedacom, LifeSize, Microsoft, Mirial, Polycom, RADVISION, Sony, Tandberg, Telanetix, Telepresence Tech, Teliris, V2, VidSoft, Vidyo, Visual Nexus, VTEL, and ZTE.

Increasing the number of remote locations that you video conference with increases the value of the technology. Like most network applications, the usefulness and cost efficiency of video conferencing is proportional to the number of people that use it. If you only hold videoconferencing sessions with one remote office, it may not be a cost effective solution. If every location of a large company has video conferencing technology and anybody in the company can use it, the savings can be significant.

The power of video conferencing increases as you offer the technology to more employees and extend it to multiple points on your network. Where a company really starts to see value is when it reduces sales travel and customer meetings and begins to replace them with virtual meetings that incur only a fraction of the cost.