Dialogic Joins Newly Launched Unified Communications Interoperability Forum

By Anil Sharma, TMCnet Contributor

Dialogic Corporation, a global provider of mobile video and other multimedia products, has announced its Adopter membership in the recently formed Unified Communications Interoperability Forum, a non-profit alliance of worldwide technology leaders working together to fully realize the potential of unified communications.

The UCIF is dedicated to enabling standards-based, cross-vendor interoperability of UC hardware and software across enterprises, service providers and consumer clouds and is designed to enable global businesses to be more productive.

“Being a member of the UCIF will allow Dialogic (News - Alert) to stay at the forefront of UC technology and adoption and that will help better enable Dialogic products to interoperate with leading solutions providers,” said Franz-Josef Eberle, VP and GM of the enterprise marketing group at Dialogic, in a statement. 

Eberle said that this interoperability is key for delivering features and services today and in the future.

Jonathan Edwards, research analyst, Unified Communications, IDC (News - Alert), said that interoperability is not only critical to customer success for deploying unified communications – it’s also intrinsic to the delivery of legacy, current and next-generation UC tools, services and infrastructure from multiple vendors.

Edwards said that until now, efforts to achieve interoperability have appeared ad-hoc, which has given customers little assurance that their existing and planned investments are protected and will deliver the value promised.

“I’m delighted to see Dialogic take a leading role by joining the UCIF,” he said. “Together, these companies will help drive industry-wide adoption of open standards and develop programs that put accountability on the vendors and provide peace of mind and investment protection for end customers – something that will surely accelerate adoption of UC technologies.”

The UCIF will work with existing industry standards, identifying and filling the gaps between current protocols and interoperability issues that have stalled broad adoption and deployment of valuable communications methods.

UCIF membership is open to hardware and software solution providers, service providers and network operators.

(source: http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/mobile-video/articles/96388-dialogic-joins-newly-launched-unified-communications-interoperability-forum.htm)