Audio Conferencing Endpoints Market, Global, 2024 2030

Revenue forecast

The revenue estimate for the base year 2023 is $382.5 million, with a CAGR of 1.2% for the study period 2022–2030

The Impact of the Top 3 Strategic Imperatives on the Audio Conferencing Endpoints Market

Competitive Intensity

Why:

•  In the past 2 years, demand for low-cost, plug-and-play, portable audio devices that employees can use both at home and in the office has increased, but the industry faces slowing demand.
• Organizations are replacing TDM/IP devices with collaboration bars, which support a greater range of use cases.

Frost Perspective: 

• Although flexible collaboration bars are replacing TDM/IP conference phones in small and medium-sized rooms, the use of collaboration bars is driving interest in group USB devices that can be easily chained to collaboration devices to improve audio experiences.
• USB vendors are looking to grow market share by adding new features an

Transformative Megatrends

Why: 

• Organizations fearing a slowdown in staff productivity are putting in place return to office (RTO) programs to encourage staff to work from the office 2 or 3 days a week.
• However, the hybrid work model will not disappear as employers will use it to retain and secure talent and lower costs, but it will mean a more mixed working environment for employees

Frost Perspective: 

• Previously, ensuring all meeting participants felt equally included in calls meant ensuring all attendees were on one camera. Now, as RTO programs are more common, focus is shifting from video to audio quality in meetings.
• The primary challenge is to ensure crystalclear audio. Noise-cancelling algorithms and beamforming technologies are key differentiators for vendors.

Industry Convergence

Why: 

• The range of devices in meeting spaces continues to grow as more and more devices become networked. Interoperability between installed audio devices and other audio-visual (AV) devices (cameras) becomes critical to smooth business operations.
• Convergence of networked audio devices with telephones and IT will enhance overall AV experiences.

Frost Perspective: 

• By using digital networks such as Ethernet, audio devices can seamlessly connect and control AV endpoints, enabling centralized control and management and allowing vendors to enter new markets.
• The increase in digital connectivity will promote the use of audio platforms as room controllers for AV endpoints.

Scope of Analysis

• Tabletop audio conferencing endpoints comprise a built-in speaker, microphone, and a keypad combined with a user interface for audio control. They incorporate technologies such as noise reduction, echo cancellation, and anti-clipping to ensure audio quality.
• In this analysis, revenues and unit shipments correspond to vendor bookings.
• The regions covered in this research are North America (NA); Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); Asia-Pacific (APAC), and Caribbean and Latin America (CALA).
• Audio endpoints bundled into AV kits are included in market sizing. They are counted as one unit, and revenues are calculated based on audio device average sales price (ASP) only (e.g., in Crestron Flex tabletop UC Video Conference System, only revenue associated with Mercury is considered in this report). The combined revenue of modular kits is considered in a separate global video conferencing devices report (i.e., State of the Global Video Conferencing Devices Market – Forecast to 2028, published 2023-12-22).
• As TDM is a declining market and as many models are reaching the end of their useful life, Frost & Sullivan has combined TDM devices with the IP segment, which is presented as TDM/IP in the forecast, but insights into TDM and IP separately will be provided in the discussion slides of this study.
• This study does not include video digital signal processors or video-capable conferencing solutions comprised of a USB audio conferencing endpoint, a USB video camera, and a separate conferencing client. Microphones or speakers are sold separately but later combined with audio mixers and digital signal processors (DSP) when installed in meeting rooms.

Segmentation

Audio conferencing endpoints are broadly classified into the following segments.

• Audio Conferencing Endpoints
  • Tabletop Endpoints
    • TDM Endpoints*
    • IP Endpoints
    • USB Endpoints
      • Personal USB
      • Group USB
  • Installed Endpoints
    • Installed audio conferencing endpoints are non-portable audio conferencing systems designed specifically for use in larger meeting rooms and requiring installation and configuration by a trained person.
    • Installed endpoints comprise a control unit or console with an embedded controlling processor and software, a multi-channel microphone mixer, an amplifier, and an echo cancellation facility. Examples include Shure MXA902, Yamaha ADECI, or Biamp MRB-L-X400-C.
    • Excluded are video digital signal processors or video-capable huddle-room peripherals that are offered as a combined audio and USB video-camera pair requiring a separate conferencing client.

Competitive Environment

Key Competitors

• Avaya
• ClearOne
• Poly
• VTech
• Yamaha
• Cisco
• Crestron
• Grandstream Networks
• Mitel
• Yealink
• Accutone
• Ankerwork
• ClearOne
• Dell
• Epos Audio
• Jabra
• Lenovo
• Q-SYS
• Sennheiser
• Peoplelink
• Beyerdynamic
• EMEET
• Biamp
• Bose
• Symetrix
• Vaddio
• Xilica