Futuresource Video Conferencing

Futuresource’s Video Conferencing hardware report provides market sizing across four product categories: cloud conferencing endpoints (meeting room cameras & video bars), controllers and in-room compute.

Cloud conferencing endpoints are used with cloud conferencing software to create higher quality video conferences with the option of multiple participants per endpoint. This includes totally agnostic solutions, which usually connect to a laptop or PC via USB, as well as endpoints linked to room solutions, such as Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTRs). This product category includes meeting room cameras and video bars.

Controllers are touch panels, generally on the meeting room table, which allow users to control both conferencing and other meeting room functions like calendar management and content sharing. These devices are usually tightly integrated with software room systems like Microsoft Teams Rooms or Zoom Rooms.

In-room compute are mini-PCs used to run cloud conferencing software and paired with cloud conferencing endpoints to create a full room system, such as a Microsoft Teams Room, or Zoom Rooms.