January 2, 2012 by Jim O'Neill via FierceEnterpriseCommunications.com -- If 2011 was a good year for videoconferencing (and it was), the forecast for 2012 is even more upbeat, especially as businesses look to continue trimming travel costs and to improve productivity. Bandwidth management, interoperability, reliability and quality will continue to be key issues for enterprise customers, and they will have to be overcome before the technology truly reaches universal adoption.

But, more vendors are seeing interoperability as a selling point for customers and are working to make it happen. The November coming out party for the Open Visual Communications Consortium is a solid starting point. Enterprises, as well as SMBs, continue to see videoconferencing as a tool that will help them leverage business assets.  in a real-time and collaborative business environment, and you can expect them to join the OVCC bandwagon en masse.

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