This open industry initiative will help drive the delivery
of high quality, easy to use, interoperable
videoconferencing and videocall services for the benefit of
consumers, retail and corporate customers alike
The companies supporting this initiative will demonstrate
three examples of its practical use at the stands of
Telefónica, Ericsson and Polycom in the next MWC 2012
A group of the world's leading telecommunications operators
(Deutsche Telekom AG, Orange, Telecom Italia and
Telefónica) and equipment vendors (Alcatel-Lucent,
Ericsson, Italtel, Nokia Siemens Networks, Polycom and
Quanta Computer) have selected a common set of capabilities
based on existing 3GPP and GSMA standards to demonstrate an
open solution for videoconference services which allow
inter-operability among them.
This initiative will lead to the creation of an open,
interoperable and multi-operator environment that supports
easy to use services across networks and video equipment,
regardless of the country of origin or destination of the
call and overcoming the need for support of an operator's
service center.
Up to now, the growth of the videoconferencing market has
been constrained by the lack of interoperability among
networks and manufacturers. Current videoconference
services only work in closed solution environments and face
significant difficulties when switching between networks
and/or video equipment from different manufacturers located
in different countries. For this reason, available
videoconferencing solutions often target high-profile
corporate customers via sometimes costly single vendor
solutions which have to be managed by the operator's own
service centers.
The companies involved in this initiative will bring a
demonstration of the new interoperable HD videoconference
capabilities to MWC 2012 held in Barcelona from the 27th of
February to the 1st of March. Samples of practical
use will be demonstrated at the Telefónica (Hall 8),
Ericsson (Hall 6) and Polycom's (Stand 2D01) stands,
connecting to Deutsche Telekom in Germany and Telecom
Italia, in Italy. The services shown will be based on 3GPP
IMS and uses GSMA IPX to interconnect enabling
point-to-point as well as multi-party HD video conferences,
regardless of video user equipment, access network or
country of origin and destination with a customer
experience as easy as a phone call.
This initiative is open to all operators and vendors so we
all turn videoconferencing into a fully interoperable mass
market service that can connect everything from mobile
phones and tablets to large telepresence rooms into one
globally supported network.
According to Scott Morrison, Managing VP, Gartner:
"Personal devices such as tablets are significantly
accelerating the adoption of videoconferencing softclient
solutions, and we expect video softclients will be
pervasively deployed on all multifunction tablet devices
used in the enterprise - whether enterprise supplied or
employee-owned. But for the proliferation of personal video
to take off, the cost of providing video connectivity will
need to dramatically decline from where it is
today"*
* Gartner," Market Trends: Videoconferencing, Worldwide,
2011" by Scott Morrison, 28 April 2011
press contacts
Alcatel-Lucent
Mark Hudson
Director, Communications
Phone: +1.405.844.6827
Mark.Hudson@alcatel-lucent.com
Ericsson
Corporate Public & Media Relations
Phone: +46.10.719.69.92
media.relations@ericsson.com
Italtel
Press Office
Phone: +39.02.4388.5275
laura.borlenghi@italtel.it
Nokia Siemens Networks
Media Relations
Phone: +358 7180 31451
mediarelations@nsn.com
Orange
Press Office
vanessa.clarke@orange.com
Phone: +44.78.91.05.6593
Quanta Computer
Phone: +886.3.327.2345
H2.Sales@quantatw.com
http://www.quantatw.com
Telecom Italia
Press Office
+39.06.3688.2610
http://www.telecomitalia.com/media
Telefónica
Press Office
Phone: +34.91.482.38.00
prensa@telefonica.es
Polycom
EMEA Corporate Comms Director
Deborah Thomas
Phone:+44.1753.723.040
Twitter:deborahthomas12
Deutsche Telekom
Corporate Communications
Tel.: +49 228 181 - 4949
presse@telekom.de
