Grim IHS Forecast For European Video Market

By: Brian Karas, Published on Nov 01, 2016

Not only is the video surveillance market struggling today, even IHS is now acknowledging the challenges may last years.

In this note, we examine IHS forecast and the challenges facing the European video surveillance market.

 

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IHS ****** *******

** ********* ******* ******* *** *% ****** for ****** ******* ****:

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European ****** ************

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Revenue ** ******

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Race ** *** ****** ******

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Negative ********** *** ** ********* *** ***

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Comments (1)

Undisclosed #1

11/01/16 09:30pm

Also, this IHS Top Surveillence Trends for 2016 whitepaper has been released.

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