Microsoft Corp, Tata Communications, ACT Conferencing, and Kathea have joined the Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC).
The OVCC is a group of leading service and solution providers creating the blueprint to deliver high-quality video collaboration that connects any vendor, any network and any device, anywhere.
23 Members of the OVCC
AARnet Pty., Ltd.
ACT Conferencing#
AT&T*
Acme Packet
BCS Global*
Bharti Airtel*
BT Conferencing*
Dialogic, Inc.*
Glowpoint
Kathea#
Masergy*
Microsoft#
Orange Business Services*
PCCW Global Ltd.
Polycom, Inc.*
Sabre Travel Network
SingTel Group
Tata Commumications#
Teliris*
Telstra*
Verizon*
XConnect
YorkTel Corporation
* the 11 founding members
# the 4 new members
Six months after the launch of the OVCC in October 2011, there are now 23 members in the independent group.
OVCC members contribute to and implement the OVCC technical and commercial blueprint, using established standards and best practices to accelerate and commercialize business-to-business video communications.
OVCC members are committed to providing video around the world to enable enterprise users to place and receive video calls beyond corporate firewalls and across standards-based and proprietary video platforms.
The first OVCC services are scheduled to launch later this year.
Service providers will develop and implement OVCC technical and commercial specifications based on industry standards, best practices and business approaches to answer the need for interconnection, addressing, signaling, interoperability and service coordination.
Interoperable, high-quality connectivity across networks and devices should allow network providers to profitably and predictably monetize their inter-enterprise video exchanges.
By making interoperability requirements invisible to the enterprise, the OVCC specification enables enterprise users to leverage video conferencing investments and enable more efficient value chains – spanning customers, distributors and suppliers – to improve the speed and efficiency of doing business.
Video collaboration stakeholders interested in closing video connectivity gaps can meet OVCC members in person at TIA in Dallas, Texas, June 5-7, or at CommunicAsia in Singapore, June 19-22.
