The November 2012 announcement by Vidyo that
its innovative software platform is
being incorporated into Wii UTM Chat, a video communication service that is included
with every Nintendo Wii U console, opens the door to a future where peer-to-peer
communication will become a daily part of every consumer’s video game play, according
to Stampede President & COO Kevin Kelly, and this reality speaks volumes about what lies ahead
for profitable peer-to-peer communication in business.
In fact, Kelly
predicted today, Vidyo’s announcement represents the tipping point that now
transforms a trend toward low-cost video conferencing into a ‘stampede’ toward
widespread, peer-to-peer Unified Communications that promises to create unprecedented
new business opportunities for ProAV dealers who are equipped and educated to
take advantage of all the new field offers.
“Over the last several years we have all seen and
experienced how video conferencing has become an increasingly important part of
our lives,” Kelly explained. “What began as
high-end video conferencing through dedicated tele-presence systems from
companies like CISCO has evolved through lower-cost dedicated VC systems that
can be leased for under $100 a month to software-based PC video conferencing
solutions, to device-based conferencing. The fact that all of these
different conferencing systems can now be combined at any given time, and in a
variety of different configurations, is what makes the old era of video
conferencing the new era of Unified
Communications.”
Kelly believes
that 2013 will be the year that Unified Communications becomes a major new growth
opportunity for dealers in virtually every vertical market, offering end-users
a wide selection of product offerings that cover every need from dedicated
enterprise-wide video conferencing systems to software-based, PC-attached
solutions.
Even
more importantly, according to Kelly, dealers now have the opportunity to benefit
not only from the sale of VC hardware and software, but also from the associated sales of
displays, audio equipment, and other components that users of VC software
surely need to have. Also, the ongoing service contracts on video conferencing
systems create annuities for VC dealers that are unheard of in any other sector
of the ProAV industry.
“The increased number
of video conferencing endpoints is changing the way that people view the need
to videoconference, and more people are taking notice of the endless
opportunities that VC offers,” added Kelly. “The responsibility now lies with
VC dealers to learn more about how Unified Communications can benefit them and their
customer base, so that they can be prepared to offer the absolute best in the
coming year.”
About Stampede
Known
for its value-added distribution, Amherst, New York-based Stampede is the
leading distributor of presentation equipment including LCD/DLP projectors and
flat panel displays. Stampede provides a complete range of brand name
presentation equipment to a variety of audio/video, computer, and home theater
resellers and integrators in the United States, Canada and Latin America. These
resellers rely on Stampede for value-added services in distribution, marketing
and solution- based sales. Stampede annually produces the “Big Book of AV,” an
816-page catalog and companion website (www.BigBookofAV.com) providing hundreds
of sales, installation and spec tips for Stampede’s dealers in addition to
product details on more than 5,000 SKUs. For more information on Stampede, log
onto www.stampedeglobal.com.
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