HTML5 to be hot for mobile phone video chats and VIPR could create interoperable enterprise VoIP, videoconferencing
VIPR is a protocol that lets people use all of their fancy VoIP features, including videoconferencing, when calling someone outside their own company, over a regular phone line. It has been submitted as an IETF standard.
In the video below, Dr. Cullen Jennings, Ph.D., Distinguished Engineer, Cisco, has offered an update on where it stands.
He was a popular speaker at the IT Expo Conference in Miami earlier this month. I also caught a video of Jennings discussiong how “Flash killer” HTM5 will come to Internet video, not just for playing YouTubes. It will also let your browser conduct your videoconferencing and voice calls on your smartphone,
I can’t do a better job than Jennings himself, so I’ve posted both videos.
All about VIPR:
All about HTML5 for video calls smartphones: Note: This interview isn’t great … but interesting how he calls out Google a couple of times. Skype has already been testing HTML5 based on Google’s VP8 codec which is competing with Microsoft-backed H.264 … is Cisco throwing its weight behind VP8?
A new report by Cisco forecasts astronomical mobile video usage. Such forecasts are nice validation for Cisco. It wants to see video explode on all networks — home, enterprise, Wi-Fi, mobile, Internet. It has been predicting, and building out products, for this eventuality for years. Video usage could cause enterprises and service providers to need pricy, high performing infrastructures.
Indeed, to that end, at Barcelona today, Cisco announced, Cisco MOVE, a bundle of products geared toward mobile service providers to help them serve lots of video. Cisco MOVE consists of the ASR 5000, management software, carrier grade Wi-Fi, its Unified Computing servers and its content deliver network platform.
