Alissa Cooper

March 20, 2017

COLLABORATION

The Importance of Standards, IETF, and Interop to Collaboration at Cisco

2 min read

The IETF has been the birthplace of countless technologies – like SIP – that have made the Internet what it is today. Standards like SIP are hugely important to Cisco, our collaboration products, and to our newest platform, Cisco Spark. And although we may be in the “post standards era,” there are many areas where application-layer standards like SIP remain essential even as IP communications moves to cloud.