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Cisco confirms open source Telepresence
Wednesday, 21 April 2010, 18:45 IST
Bangalore: Cisco after the acquisition of Tandberg, a Norwegian maker of video conferencing equipment has confirmed its open source Telepresence. It is seizing the chance to dramatically expand the video conferencing market by making its Telepresence Interoperability Protocol open source.
Divesting ownership of the Telepresence Interoperability Protocol, which links Cisco Telepresence to other companies' videoconferencing systems, was a condition of its $3.3 billion acquisition of Tandberg, reports Dana Blankenhorn.
But the market's problem is cost, especially for Telepresence. Interoperability across much of the industry, and an open source protocol to assure interoperability, should help with that cost problem. So should the continuing impact of Moore's Law, especially when it comes to large plasma screens.
Cisco has been working on videoconferencing for years but such cutting-edge technologies don't really take off until disaster strikes and people are forced to depend upon them.