Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Technology: Emerging economies continue to invest in communications infrastructure

Singpore (BUSINESS WIRE) - The Asia-Pacific videoconferencing infrastructure market has seen considerable growth in the last two years largely due to the rising demand from the emerging power economies of China and India, and to a lesser extent, ASEAN countries. These nations are increasingly enhancing their communications infrastructure, keeping in tandem with their economic growth.

Even mature markets such as Australia and New Zealand are demanding complete infrastructure solutions, further contributing to the overall growth in Asia-Pacific.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.conferencing.frost.com), Asia Pacific Videoconferencing Infrastructure Market, finds that the market - covering six sub-regions (13 countries) in Asia-Pacific - earned revenues of US$80.9 million in 2007 and estimates this to reach US$245.3 million by end-2014, at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 17.2 percent (2007-2014).

The videoconferencing infrastructure market includes all videoconferencing bridges or MCU (multipoint control units), gateways, gatekeepers, firewalls, NAT (network address translation), and management and scheduling tools and software.

If you are interested in a virtual brochure, which provides service providers, vendors/manufacturers, end users, and other industry participants with an overview of the Asia-Pacific videoconferencing infrastructure market, then send an e-mail to Sarah Lourdes at sarah.lourdes@frost.com, with your full name, company name, title, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address. Upon receipt of the above information, an overview will be sent to you by e-mail.

The geographic expansion of organizations, especially in emerging countries, has been one of the biggest drivers of the videoconferencing infrastructure market.

Greater China accounted for 63.3 percent of the total Asia-Pac market in 2007 with revenues growing at a blistering 39.6 percent year-on-year.

India was another high growth market as revenues rose 28.8 percent. In both these countries, the government and corporate sectors make up the bulk of domestic demand.

India accounted for 6.4 percent of the total revenues, Japan - 16.8 percent, Australasia - 7.7 percent, South Korea and ASEAN - each at 2.9 percent.

"Gradually changing work cultures that favour videoconferencing, improved network connectivity and bandwidth availability in most parts of Asia, a focus on improving productivity, and travel cost reduction are the other major factors for the surge in demand," notes Frost & Sullivan industry analyst Pranabesh Nath.

"This growing demand however needs to be sustained with continuously improving videoconferencing solutions and innovative features and functionality at economical prices, in order to counter competition from lower-cost audio and web conferencing alternatives," says Nath, adding that the Asia-Pacific market is more constrained by price sensitivity than North America and Europe.

The Asia Pacific Videoconferencing Infrastructure Market study is part of the Conferencing & Collaboration Growth Partnership Service program, which also includes research in the following markets: telepresence, videoconferencing endpoints, and audio, video and web conferencing services. All research services included in subscriptions provide detailed market opportunities and industry trends that have been evaluated following extensive interviews with market participants.

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Sarah Lourdes, +603.6207.1030 Corporate Communications - Asia Pacificsarah.lourdes@frost.com

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