The major Video Conferencing market makes part of a $4-5 billion dollar real-time collaboration market that includes audio, video, and web conferencing products and services.

The videoconferencing PRODUCTS market includes:

--- Group (sometimes called room) videoconferencing endpoints. These are high-quality systems designed to be used in shared environments such as meeting rooms, boardrooms, and auditoriums.

--- Desktop or personal videoconferencing systems. With cameras and microphones designed for personal or single-person use, this product segment includes videophones, executive systems, and PC-based solutions optimized for the office and cubicle work environment.

--- Video infrastructure: Includes multipoint control units (MCUs), also known as bridges, that enable more than two participants to be in a single videoconference; gateways that connect users on different networks (typically IP and ISDN as well as PSTN), gatekeepers that provide sophisticated user and bandwidth management functions as well as directory services; and NAT-firewall traversal solutions that enable audio and video calls to connect across different networks and user domains. Many of these infrastructure products are available to end users on a “pay-as-you-go” basis by conferencing service providers.

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