Content Infrastructure: The Backbone of Online Streaming

The use of streaming services, online gaming, social media, videoconferencing for personal, corporate, and education purposes is on the rise and is expected to grow in the coming years. The changes will significantly alter our daily lives in many ways.

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How to Engage Your Virtual Conference Participants

Conferencing applications are now the norm at home and work. Over 99% of respondents including both organizers and attendees report using conferencing applications for home use. They use an average of 4.8 different applications “often”.

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Explore the Video Conference Market Transformation

In Q1 2020 USB video conferencing systems accounted for 36% of the videoconference market revenues — that’s up from 21% a year ago. Meanwhile, the USB share of video rooms jumped to 41% — that’s up from 35% a year ago.

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Cloud-Based Conferencing Revenue will Reach $4.1 Billion

Short audio or video conference meet-ups have replaced the typical 1-hour long mind-numbing in-person meetings that were common at many enterprises prior to the pandemic. Legacy business leaders that were not previously Agile converts have now embraced these online collaboration tools. It’s amazing.

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CEO Productivity: How to Improve Your Virtual Meetings

“When you adopt a stewardship mindset, you become deliberate in your meeting decisions from start to finish. Being intentional and making smart meeting choices do not take much time at all — with practice, they can take only a minute.”

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Video Conferencing Revenues Have Reached $6 Billion

Video conferencing is used to enable real-time communication, and to enhance productivity between teams based in different locations worldwide. The global market is anticipated to expand at a CAGR of ~9% and was valued at ~$6 Billion in 2019.

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How Teachers and Student Classrooms are Going Virtual

Over the last few weeks, Cisco and IBM have launched a joint initiative to create free virtual classrooms for students affected by nationwide school closures. The aim is not only to connect teachers and students through interactive online classes, but to also help them use the technology more effectively.

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U.S. Broadband Internet Usage is Up Significantly

“The average downstream (data received) usage per customer in urban areas rose 98.3% while upstream (data sent) usage per customer climbed 68.6% on Monday, March 16 compared to a week earlier.”

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How Cloud Services Disrupt the Videoconferencing Market

In the first quarter of 2016 (Q1 2016), video conferencing revenue declined 22 percent quarter-over-quarter to $701 million due to lower seasonal demand, according the the latest worldwide market study by IHS Technology.

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Global Videoconference Market Update for 2016

Enterprise videoconferencing and telepresence systems market showed mixed results in the first quarter of 2016 (1Q16), with overall videoconferencing equipment revenue decreasing 21.1 percent quarter over quarter, but increasing 2.3 percent year over year, according to IDC.

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