Cisco moves towards open telepresence standards
Paul Milligan, January 28, 2010
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Cisco has announced plans to submit a Telepresence Interoperability Protocol, in an effort to build an open standard for video conferencing software. Agreements have already been signed with LifeSize, Tandberg and Radvision. However, one high profile name in the sector was missing from the list in Polycom.
Cisco has offered to license its protocol to industry participants royalty free.
By licensing the protocol, Cisco hopes to offer vendors the opportunity to take advantage of a switched architecture, using the network as a platform, to improve media processing and intercompany security, lower the cost of media resources, and decrease latency.
Cisco already supports H.323, which allows Cisco TelePresence to interoperate with SD and HD videoconferencing systems and other collaboration applications. Cisco supports HD videoconferencing interoperability solutions via the Cisco MXE 5600 and Cisco Unified Video Conferencing.
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