Avistar Discusses Key trends and Few Issues in Videoconferencing for 2010

Avistar Communications Corp., a provider of unified visual communications solutions, recently listed few trends and issues related to desktop videoconferencing – for 2010.

 

According to Avistar (News - Alert), videoconferencing will be much easier to use, more available and omnipresent. At the same time, it will considerably contribute to business productivity as well.

 

This is possible due to the fact that video calls can be placed from any videoconferencing application through videoconferencing standards available today. As more and more videoconferencing vendors support these standards, consumers as well as professional setting can benefit more from this.

 

Avistar said it anticipates more communications-enabled business processes (CEBP) in 2010. By injecting unified communications into their business processes, more and more enterprises can seek long-term rewards, such as decreased cycle times, increased productivity as well as growth. Moreover, by integrating conferencing capabilities into existing business applications will facilitate companies to make quick decisions in a more collaborative environment.

 

The company also anticipated that in another five years, people will opt for single-click buttons over phone numbers to communicate, be it from a computer or a smartphone, from their places of business, on the go or in their home - all via audio, video or multimedia.

 

In addition, Avistar indicated a key trend, where, business cards would hold a single address for contact voice and video information, within few years.

 

As webcams have become standard accessories on computers, more consumers will be now prompted to try free videoconferencing applications. Even, companies will look for business-class videoconferencing. This trend might catch up in 2010. However, big organizations will be worried about manageability of bandwidth.

 

One more key trend that can be noted in 2010 is addition of videoconferencing feature in more social networking sites. Even though, social networking sites continue to provide text- and link-based conferencing as well as videoconferencing, the main challenge for these social networks would not be bandwidth but storage, said Avistar.

 

Small profile devices, low-power consumption devices and virtual desktop environments are catching the trend. However, as this trend catches, voice and video communications architectures need to be fundamentally changed, in order to adapt to VDI deployments.