Doing both means avoiding either/or choices and approaching every decision as an opportunity to seize.
For IMTC, it means each Telepresence related activity group can benefit from its leadership and mutually reinforce the other for the ultimate benefit of the industry.
Those wanting an interoperability option now can use TIP as well as participate in its stewardship while the Telepresence AG is contributing to new, openly develop standards for multi-streaming that are getting under way.
Cisco originally designed and developed the Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP), which it opened up to others to license earlier this year.
When asked to divest its ownership of TIP and hand it over to a responsible industry body to govern its future, Cisco asked IMTC because of its rich history of driving interoperability in the multimedia communications industry.
To help speed your implementation of TIP, there is also an open source TIP Library project available from IMTC under the friendly, Apache 2.0 License.
IMTC will facilitate TIP product interoperability testing events and host ongoing discussions around enhancements or changes needed to TIP to help ensure multi-vendor success.
Insight gained from the experiences of an early implementation, even if originally proprietary, can be very valuable to future standards designers and adopters alike.
Join the Telepresence Activity Group if you haven’t already. Do both!
David Benham
Director of Engineering
TelePresence Technology Group
Cisco Systems
