Cisco Responds to Polycom's Adoption of TIP and Interoperability

We believe that there is market transition to the pervasive adoption of video, and clients want interoperability without compromise. The value for clients is to enable any-to-any multi-screen interoperability so that there are more people to talk to. This is helping clients leverage Metcalfe’s Law that builds the overall market. Cisco is committed to interoperability between Cisco TelePresence products and competitive multi-screen video communications devices, including Polycom, LifeSize and others."

The open standards Kool-Aid

Well amen to that! Cisco didn't always drink the open standards Kool-Aid, now they've come a long way. When all is said and done, we're starting to see some interoperability with high-end video telepresence systems. At once, I'd like to see better interoperability with desktop IP video phones both in the enterprise and residential space. I've been griping about the videophone wars since 2004! Although there has been some progress.