According to the consulting company, vendors are also moving into the Asia Pacific as the opportunity presents itself to share managed service charges as well as equipment sales revenues.

Among developments in the Asia Pacific this year from vendors, Polycom has launched a room rental service for telepresence in seven countries; Huawei has launched a telepresence solution to compete in its local market, where it partners with China Telecom to help distribute its equipment, and Tandberg has opened a T3 telepresence room in Hong Kong to encourage enterprises to experience telepresence. Service providers such as Tata Communications in India, Telstra in Australia and CPCnet in Hong Kong have launched managed telepresence in the region.