IMTC Completes SuperOp 2012

By Meenakshi Shankar, TMCnet Contributor

The International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium, or IMTC, a company which is focused on promoting the development and use of interoperable, real-time, multimedia telecommunication products and services based on open international standards, announced the successful completion of SuperOp! 2012.

SuperOp! 2012, organized and conducted by the IMTC, is noted to be a significant annual testing event for the multimedia communications, videoconferencing and telepresence industries. It brings together engineers from leading companies developing unified communications, video communication products and services worldwide.

The SuperOp! 2012 testing covered equipment and service interoperability on combinations of IP, 3G and LTE networks, and covered a broad range of technologies such as HD Videoconferencing, TIP, Telepresence (News - Alert), MPEG DASH, HTTP Live Streaming and traditional 3GPP RTSP Streaming, as well as full spectrum of SIP-based and H.323-based videoconferencing systems.

SuperOp! SuperConnect, the culmination event of a week-long testing exercise, brought together more than 50 endpoints with a full conference call being established in less than 30 minutes. For the first time ever, iPad and Android (News - Alert) videoconferencing and telepresence clients were included in the SuperConnect.

The SIP Parity Activity Group testing was comprised of more than 24 product teams from companies including Acme Packet, BlueJeans, Cisco, Huawei, LG, Lifesize, Magor Corporation, Polycom, RADVISION, Teliris and Vidyo (News - Alert).

“Interoperability is critical for people to meet face-to-face across the millions of video collaboration solutions available whether on tablets and laptops or in conference rooms and immersive theatres,” Stuart Monks, vice president of Engineering, Polycom said in a statement.

As indicated, the interoperability testing focused on various aspects of videoconferencing and telepresence interoperability, with the IMTC SIP Parity best practice documents and associated test cases documents providing a framework within which to test. Tested functionality included H.264 HD video, SIP/H.323 interworking, SIP UDP (News - Alert)/TCP interworking, BFCP via UDP for content sharing, BFCP via UDP/TCP interworking, H.239 for content sharing, BFCP/H.239 interworking and more.

Also, this year's testing was focused on a greater number of deployment combinations and providing consistent experience to customers using TIP protocol for multivendor Telepresence Interop.

“Successful TIP interoperability testing shows customers of multi-screen telepresence systems that they can interconnect multi-vendor installations together today,” David Benham, co-chair of the IMTC TIP Activity Group and director of Engineering at Cisco (News - Alert) Systems, said in a statement.

The next SuperOp! Interoperability testing event is expected to take place during May 2013.

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