Video Conference and Telepresence Technology Gaining Momentum

Today, Netscout, an application performance management consultant, released the results of its video conferencing study. The study showed that 85% of the polled respondents either currently use, or plan to use web conference and video conference technology in the near future. The research suggests that videoconferencing – a much talked about, but seldom-used technology – may finally be gaining some momentum with the online meeting enterprises.

Beyond video conferencing, 41% of respondents are also using, or planning to implement telepresence – a high-end version of videoconferencing that provides a more life-like experience. Respondents cited cost savings as the primary reason for using or implementing video conference and other online collaboration tools.

The survey that interviewed 400 network enterprise managers from around the globe, also concluded that 71% of the organizations were running, or planned to run, these online collaboration services over a converged network rather than the 13% who said they would use a dedicated network.

Netscout’s marketing vice president Jim Frey said that a those enterprises implementing telepresence should be aware of the bandwidth requires, which can add “15Mbit/s of bandwidth on their existing networks”. This kind of network load, “could easily affect existing applications and adversely impact the value intended by adopting the technology,” he added.