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Videoconferencing market trends: prices for videoconferencing equipment and services are dropping, demand is growing, and video codec vendors are trying to win your favor.

Business Communications Review, October, 1991 by Scott, D. Lynn

Videoconferencing Market Trends Prices for videoconferencing equipment and services are dropping, demand is growing, and video codec vendors are trying to win your favor. The videoconferencing market has changed more in the last year than during all its previous history. Ten years of determined efforts on the part of a handful of manufacturers to provide more features, lower costs and higher quality in video codecs have brought the technology to the point where it is finally gaining widespread acceptance in the business world.

The availability of multipoint control units (MCUs), devices that link codecs at three or more locations, has coincided with the evolution of CCITT standards for codec interoperability. These factors, coupled with falling...

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