By Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing

In TMCnet’s VoIP Quality Feature, industry expert Doug Mohney outlines the troubles facing end-to-end SIP transport and the need for what he terms a ” federation service to link enterprises, enabling them to share UC applications, IM directly and securely, and do all that HD voice and video goodness without having to run down to the corporate IT staff and getting them to hand-craft secure connections through the firewall on a one-off basis.”  His view is that, “federation would provide a central hub and one-stop-shop for businesses to interoperate at the applications level without having to worry about security.”

Businesses are considering how they can seamlessly integrate UC applications with their partners since Internet service providers (ISPs) do not offer such a service beyond the controlled VoIP framework.

HD Voice News profiles Vidtel, an innovative video conferencing service provider, as leading the charge for HD video conferencing device interoperability.  Industry expert Doug Mohney writes:

“…With the trending-upward use of HD voice in the VoIP environment and enterprises looking at their big-bucks telepresence systems and wanting to use them to videoconference (vconf) with their business partners (i.e. suppliers and customers), Avaya, Cisco, Polycom and others need some answers.

Vidtel (www.vidtel.com) is the most “on the radar” company when it comes to enterprise federation [interoperability]. CEO Scott Wharton has been leading the charge to build a video directory and other interoperable bits to allow video-endpoints to directly call each other over the internet without having to deal with the Grand Headache of corporate IT -  having to customize a peer-to-peer link.”