It appears that every videoconferencing company in the U.S. is listed in this release - but it might be missing ONE company:
Wednesday November 13 5:37 PM EDT
Videoconferencing Moving At Warp Speed Onto Information
Superhighway
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 1996--No one knows how many onramps will ultimately
access the information superhighway, but videoconferencing is on a fast track to defining where its market is headed and how
its users can get there.
Forces driving the demand for visual communication are easy to understand: businesses are creating affiliates and subsidiaries
around the world. Corporations can't afford to send executives globe-trotting -- not when it's cheaper to telecommute to the
Pacific Rim from a desktop computer than hop on a plane. And, there's no jet lag.
The strategic importance of this emerging market is detailed in a new study by Frost & Sullivan, U.S.
VIDEOCONFERENCING SYSTEMS AND SERVICES MARKETS.
The industry is so young that those who might use the complex technology are just now realizing the benefit of two- way
audio and video signals. Some educational, scientific and medical centers have been reaching out to students and colleagues
in remote areas, but the potential for videoconferencing is largely untapped.
Frost & Sullivan analysts predict market revenues will leap from $2.9 billion in 1995 to almost $35 billion by 2002 -- a
staggering compound annual growth rate of 42.3 percent.
And that's in spite of a host of competitive pricing factors too numerous to mention in detail here. Suffice it to say that new
companies producing new technologies, combined with benefits from the passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, will
drive down prices for videoconferencing users.
This research by Frost & Sullivan details in length how and why some videoconferencing systems and services companies
stand to gain market shares. Its analysis provides significant strategic insight into the direction and velocity of this dynamic
young market; companies purchasing this report receive recommendations for strategic action, as well as a reliable source of
continuing research by an international consulting firm dedicated to defining market problems, needs and opportunities.
Companies included in this study are: 1-800-Video-on, AC&E, Ltd., Access Conference Call Services, Accord Video
Telecommunications, Inc., ACT Videoconferencing, Inc., ADC Video Systems, Affinity VideoNet, Inc., Alpha Systems Lab,
Ameritech Enhanced Business Services (Illinois), Ameritech Indiana, Ameritech Michigan, Ameritech Ohio, Ameritech
Wisconsin, Andries Tek, Inc., Apple Computer, Inc., Applied Communication Concepts, Inc., AT&T Corp., Avistar
Systems, BBN Corp., Bell Atlantic-Delaware, Bell Atlantic-Maryland, Bell Atlantic-New Jersey, Bell Atlantic-Pennsylvania,
Bell Atlantic- Virginia, Bell Atlantic-Washington D.C., Bell Atlantic-West Virginia, BellSouth Enterprises, BellSouth
Telecommunications, British Telecom Visual Images, Inc., Coherent Communications Systems Corp., Compression Labs,
Inc. (CLI), Compunetix Communications Systems Division, ConferView, Connectix Corp., Connexus, Corel Systems Corp.,
Creative Labs, Inc., Creative Software Technologies , DataPoint Corp., DynoVision, Inc., The Electronic Studio, EyeTel
Communications, Fiber & Wireless, Inc., Fujitsu Business Communication Systems, Future Communication Systems, Inc.,
GPT Video Systems/Executone, Grass Valley Group, GTE Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Hitachi Denshi America, Ltd.,
IBM Corp., ImageLink, Inc., Imaging Business Systems, Incite, Innovative Communication, Inc. (ICI), InSoft, Inc., Intel
Corp., Interactive Conferencing Network/ICN, InterOffice Management, Inc., Intrepid Videoconference Systems Division,
InView, ITC, Kinko's, Link-VTC, Inc., LiveWorks, Inc., Mentec, Inc., The Metropolitan Interactive Video
Network/MIVNET, Mitsubishi Electronics America, Inc. Information Technologies Group/Visual Telecom, Mosaic
Information Technologies, MRA Associates, Inc., MultiLink, Inc., NEC America, networkMCI Conferencing, Nevada Bell
Telephone Co., Northern Telecom, Ltd., NYNEX New England Telephone, NYNEX New York, Pacific Bell Telephone
Co., Panasonic Broadcast & Television Systems Co., Paradise Software, Inc., Peregrine Systems, Inc., PictureTel Corp.,
Proximity Video Conferencing, Pyramid Video, Inc., Robotel Electronique, Inc., RSI Systems, Inc., RTZ Software,
SAGEM, SBC Communications, Siemens Rolm, Silicon Graphics, Inc., Sony Corp., Specom Technologies Corp., Sprint
Corp., Sun Microsystems, Target Technologies, Uni-Data and Communications, Inc., U S WEST, Inc., VCON, Inc., VIC
Hi-Tech Corp., Video Conferencing and Communications, Inc., Videoconferencing Systems, Inc. (VSI), VideoServer, Inc.,
Viewpoint Systems, Inc., VistaCom, Inc., Vivo Software, Inc., VTel Corp., Westin Hotels & Resorts, WilTel, Xerox Corp.,
and Zydacron, Inc.
Frost & Sullivan is an international marketing consulting company that monitors the videoconferencing industry for market
trends, market measurements, and strategies. This ongoing research is utilized to update a series of research publications and
to support industry participants with customized consulting needs. Free executive summaries of all Frost & Sullivan reports
are available to the press.
Report: 2675-64 Publication Date: July 1996 Price: $2,495
CONTACT: Frost & Sullivan
Kimberly Barney, 415/961-9000 ext. 233 (California)
415/961-5042 fax
kbarney@frost.com
frost.com
or
Kristina Menzefricke, 44.171.730.3438 (London)
44.171.730.3343 (fax)
or
Stefan Gerhardt, 49.69.235057 (Frankfurt)
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