MEDIA RELEASE PR37888
Global Business and Environmental Challenges Drive Demand for Video Communication
LONDON, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
- Regus Launches the World's Largest Public Access Video Communication
Network
Regus, the leading global provider of innovative workspace solutions,
today announces the launch of the world's largest public access video
communication (VC) network. The 2,500 VC suites, available through the Regus
website, and made up from its own centres and partner facilities, has a
footprint which covers 115 countries and 1,110 cities and suburban areas.
The growth of Regus VC facilities is a response to increased demand for
the solution. For the 12 months ending Dec 2009, Regus experienced a global
average increase of 22% in VC bookings. This supports a recent finding from
research and advisory company Gartner that the value of the VC market is set
to post a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.8 per cent between 2008
and 2013, rising from $3.8 billion to $8.6 billion[1]. Regus asserts this is
because businesses are looking for smart ways to reduce travel, the
associated environmental impacts, and crucially, cost without compromising
business operations; video communicating rather than travelling can be up to
75% cheaper with negligible carbon emissions.
Mark Dixon, CEO, Regus says: "Business boundaries have been expanding for
some time but as pressure mounts to curb travel spending, increase
productivity and reduce environmental damage there's the risk that
international business relations could suffer. Whether the motivation is
cost, productivity or the environment we're allowing companies to stay
connected and expand their international footprint. With facilities in 1,100
locations, from Tokyo to Tehran and Tiblisi to Toronto, video communication
through Regus means it can be business as usual."
Regus' VC facilities can be booked with just three to seven days' notice
and nearly half of the bookings run across multiple time zones. To cater for
this relatively late booking profile Regus offers online, real time meeting
room and VC equipment availability globally, meaning that units can be booked
immediately from anywhere in the world. All guests need to do is enter their
location details to find and book their nearest VC suite.
Regus have designed the service and network to unlock maximum savings for
their customers, this includes:-
- The broadest spread of locations to optimise ease of access
to VC services
- A bridging provider to ensure best-in-class call quality
- Equipment that can seamlessly connect to any other complaint
industry standards
Beyond traditional VC facilities, Regus is also leading the roll-out of
public access Telepresence studios with Cable & Wireless using Polycom RPX
equipment. Teleprescence enables participants to experience life-size
presence of colleagues in high-definition so that all parties feel like they
are in the same room. Following its debut in Berkeley Square, London, 12
further global sites will be deployed in February.
Notes to Editors
About The Regus Group
Regus is the world's leading global provider of innovative workspace
solutions, with products and services ranging from fully equipped offices to
professional meeting rooms, business lounges and the world's largest network
of video communication studios. Regus delivers a new way to work, whether
it's from home, on the road or from an office. Clients such as Google,
GlaxoSmithKline, and Nokia join thousands of growing small and medium
businesses that benefit from outsourcing their office and workplace needs to
Regus, allowing them to focus on their core business.
Over 500,000 customers a day benefit from Regus facilities spread across
a global footprint of 1,000 locations in 450 cities and 78 countries, which
allow individuals and companies to work wherever, however and whenever they
want to. Regus was founded in 1989 in Brussels Belgium and is listed on the
London Stock Exchange (LSE:RGU). For more information please visit:
For images, previous press release and general facts and figures please
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[1] 1 - Gartner, Inc. "Dataquest Insight: Videoconferencing Products and
Services Market Forecast, Worldwide, 2007-2013," September 28, 2009, ID#
G00171041
SOURCE: Regus
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