Whilst the industry is in the midst of deploying cloud computing service enabling capabilities; standardization continues to progress.  Whether DMTF, MEF, SNA, IEEE, the cloud computing standardization activities have been picking up.

At the ITU-T, the emphasis has been identifying areas for cloud interoperability standardization.

ITU-T’s Study Group 13 (SG 13) has created a new Working Party (WP) on cloud computing, tasked with progressing the Technical Reports that were the output of a previous Focus Group on Cloud Computing (FG Cloud) towards formalization as ITU-T Recommendations. Read More »

Tags: Cloud Computing, itu-t, standardization

IP telephony has been deployed for over 12 years now within Cisco.  We are constantly in an ongoing process to refresh our older phones with next generation devices.  It’s not easy – it’s a little like painting the Golden Gate Bridge:  you’re never finished.

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Tags: Cisco 7960, Cisco 9971, coc-collaboration, CPE, entitlement, IP Phones, IPT, phone, refresh, standardization, UC, unified communications, upgrade