Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Cisco Responds to Polycom's 'Proprietary' Claim
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Her remarks were made in response to comments by Bob Hagerty, CEO of
>| rival videoconferencing vendor Polycom, that while Cisco delivers
>| high-definition video in its TelePresence portfolio, it does so
>| using proprietary codecs, making it impossible for other systems
>| to interoperate.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| The Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch (CTMS) is a Linux appliance and
>| has a US list price of $99,000.
> `----
>
> http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=C1038D24-EBDA-4817-89D0-CFBE41EADDAC
> http://tinyurl.com/3xkrvj
This is precisely what I would expect Cisco to do. Their phones use an
"embraced & extended" version of H.323 which they call "skinny" - if you
look at Asterisk, you'll see that they have mostly reverse engineered
it. They've moved on to SIP for phone access, but if you use a
3rd-party SIP phone, they charge a licence fee on the call server which
assumes you've bought the most expensive Cisco SIP phone going, so
they've made it not worth using a 3rd-party phone. The joys of lock-in!
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