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amerson于2009-09-23 10:27 |
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I was very interested in the news I read from MarketWatch that said, "Hong Kong is pulling all its physical gold holdings from depositories in London, transferring them to a high-security depository newly built at the city's airport", although it does not say why the depository was built at the airport, of all places. It could've been situated in a thick vault inside a mountain, out in the middle of nowhere so that you could see the enemy coming, and get a chance to try out some of that expensive firepower you have been itching to use without shooting up a lot of innocent bystanders. And the police also like to employ all their people and new equipment, so they could shut down whole airport down for a week, making you miss your flight and weekend meeting with Analyst Frost & Sullivan recently forecast that the telepresence and videoconferencing market would swell to an annual global worth of $4.7bn (￡2.7bn) by 2014. Growth will be fuelled by high-quality products, the declining cost of broadband and business chiefs desire to minimise travel costs, the research firm said. Gartner is another market watcher to forecast a boom in telepresence take-up. The analyst predicted that high-definition video telepresence will be responsible for the loss of 2.1 million airline seats per year, costing the travel and hospitality industry an annual $3.5bn. Immersive experience Services specialist 5i runs sales training courses for resellers moving into the telepresence space. Director of training services Anna Guest claimed it was important to draw the distinction between telepresence and videoconferencing. Telepresence is a really immersive experience and is fundamentally different to videoconferencing or web collaboration, she said. One of the challenges it faces comes from people who want to sell video conferencing and claim telepresence is just a fancier version. Guest claimed the training had proved a hit and its popularity was starting to filter down to smaller VARs. To date it has mostly been the larger integrators, she said. But we are now rolling out to some of the smaller players who work on a national, rather than an international, basis. The Global Telepresence Market report from ABI Research, published earlier this year, predicted that the market for managed telepresence services will be worth more than $360m in 2011. The report stated that telepresences cost, coupled with technology interoperability issues, had so far proved prohibitive to all firms outside of the large enterprise arena. But a managed or on-demand model could drive take-up at SME and even consumer level, ABI claimed. Stan Schatt, ABIs vice president, said: Take a small business that has a supply chain relationship with an Asian company. The fee for an hour in a telepresence room is always going to be less than the cost of sending a key executive all the way to China. And fewer air miles are better for the environment. Traditional audio, web and video conferencing technologies are also still enjoying healthy demand, according to more Frost & Sullivan research. The Western European Conferencing Services Market report, published this summer, projects that the regions market worth will more than double by 2014. Last year, revenue from conferencing services in Western Europe was $1.12bn and Frost & Sullivan predicts this will grow to $2.31bn in 2014. The analyst claims UK demand for audio and web conferencing kit will remain strong for the foreseeable future. Reducing business travel Telecoms distributor Nimans recently entered the video conferencing fray by taking stock of vendor Polycoms QDX 6000 model. The Salford-based firm claims entry-level video technology is still appealing for comms resellers. Ian Brindle, head of conferencing sales at Nimans,Wow! said: Resellers do not have to be officially accredited or have an in-depth technical knowledge to sell this product. Demand for it is destined to be high. Brindle asserted that environmental concerns and a desire to reduce business travel would be key drivers in end user adoption. There are now no barriers for resellers to overcome; this opens up bigger revenue streams, yyqq0923 he added.
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