Key Points from Audinate and Futuresource Research on AVoIP
- Audinate and Futuresource Consulting surveyed 370 end users and 100 integrators
- 67% of respondents currently use IP networks
- 59% of respondents are now transmitting video over IP
- Scalability and future-proofing are the top drivers for AVoIP adoption
Audinate, developer of the Dante AVoIP platform, in collaboration with Futuresource Consulting, published the results of a global survey that reveals AVoIP has reached a critical inflection point, with strong current usage, near-universal adoption projected over the next few years, and growing emphasis on secure, interoperable and cloud-enabled platforms.
The research from Audinate and Futuresource indicates that AVoIP adoption has now entered a new sophisticated phase of development and deployment — dubbed AVoIP 2.0.
According to Audinate, the study surveyed 370 end users and 100 integrators across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, spanning key verticals including corporate, media, healthcare, education and government.
How Has AVoIP Adoption Grown in Recent Years?
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The findings from Audinate and Futuresource on AVoIP adoption show that Audio-over-IP (AoIP) is firmly established, with 67% of respondents currently using IP networks to deliver audio and a further 18% planning deployments within the next two to three years.
Video-over-IP adoption is close behind, with 59% already transmitting video over IP and another 26% planning near-term adoption.
Beyond connectivity, previously considered the baseline deliverable of AVoIP, participants now identify operational scalability and future-proofing as the top drivers for adoption, says Audinate. This is followed closely by security and the ability to support remote and hybrid workflows.
The paper drills deeper into the importance of each of these areas, identifying that secure, authorized access and cloud-based remote monitoring and management were rated as highly important for integrators and end users alike. Broad interoperability is another defining factor, with most enterprises actively seeking solutions that support open frameworks and multi-vendor integration to avoid proprietary lock-in and to better support complex, evolving use cases.
Audinate and Futuresource on the Future of AVoIP
“The AV market has spoken,” says Joshua Rush, chief marketing officer at Audinate. “It has been said that broad interoperability is non-negotiable and that end users and integrators require solutions that are dynamic, flexible and secure. AVoIP has clearly become a critical infrastructure that acts as the foundation layer for a wide cross section of use cases and applications, and as such needs the features and flexibility to solve not just the challenges of today, but where the industry is going.”
“The conversation around AVoIP has fundamentally changed. End users aren’t asking, ‘Should we do this?’ anymore, they are asking, ‘Which platform grows with us?'” adds Joyce Wang, lead analyst, professional broadcast at Futuresource Consulting. “Scalability, IT integration and cloud-based management have gone from nice-to-haves to hard requirements, and vendors who haven’t caught up are feeling it.”
Together, the findings from Audinate and Futuresource confirm that AVoIP has become foundational to modern audiovisual infrastructures, now central to how organizations plan, deploy and future-proof their AV ecosystems.
