The International Data Corporation Worldwide Enterprise Videoconferencing and Telepresence Equipment QView showed mixed results for Q2 2014. Though revenue in regions such as North America and Asia/Pacific increased quarter over quarter and decreased year over year, Latin America saw opposite results.
Overall videoconferencing equipment revenue increased 1.8 percent quarter over quarter in Q2 2014, it decreased -9 percent year over year.
"We continue to see the impact of delayed customer buying decisions, lower-cost systems, more software-centric products, and competitive cloud-based video service offerings on the worldwide enterprise video equipment market," said Rich Costello, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Communications Infrastructure at IDC. "The mixed video equipment results are also indicative of the ongoing transition from a primarily hardware-based reporting model to one impacted by the interest in and growth of video subscription services. On the bright side for the video equipment vendors, most or all of these vendors now offer, or are ramping-up to offer, cloud-based video alternatives to customers – in addition to their own lower cost, premises-based systems."
Though Cisco’s Q2 results showed a decline of -2.4 percent quarter over quarter and -15.2 percent year over year, it still maintains the largest share of the enterprise videoconferencing equipment world market at 38.4 percent. Polycom and Huawei rank second, with a 30.3 percent share, and third, with a 9.1 percent share, respectively, in enterprise videoconferencing equipment.
