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- TEGman, on 12/11/2007, -0/+0This is almost embarrassing to read. Cisco has a totally proprietary solution in a market where more than 99.9% of the units sold are ITU standards based. All these units work very well together just by calling each other.
Cisco is thinking companies would stop doing standards based communication in order to connect with them. Cisco should conform to the market or they will not succeed in the VC marked.
Allowing interoperability on the lowest possible quality standards when the rest of the industry has being doing HD for years is also a little funny. Cisco will allow CIF video quality. This is an old interlaced standard with 1/4 of a 4:3 TV image. Most units sold today can receive all kinds of progressive standards (following the ITU h.264 standards) like 224p,400p, 448p, 480p, 576p, 720p. At least 40% of the units sold can also send most of these resolutions.
The industry is doing enhanced definition sound like g721.1 Annex C, or HD sound like AAC-LD (true CD Quality), but Cisco is thinking of inter operating on g.711.
G.711 is the the quality you get when you talk on the phone!!! That was good 20 years ago, but not good enough when other vendors can do HD sound ( like AAC-LD) mono on 64kb per second.
Wake up Cisco or the industry will be laughing at you for your failures!
First thing for Cisco to do is to conform 100% to the ITU standards so they can talk to all the units out there already sold. Cisco is such a small player that they do not even show up on the VC industry statistics, but they are doing the same strategy they started with on VoIP (Skinny: totally proprietary). Even Cisco is feeling the heat to do SIP. Why is Cisco not getting this???
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