First commercial trials planned for first half of 2013
20th February 2013, Barcelona – The High Definition Video Conferencing Initiative, built upon participation of key interested industry players, is proud to welcome BT, GENBAND, Huawei, KPN and ZTE as new member companies.
The Initiative can now count on the commitment and support of some of the world’s leading telecommunications operators (BT, Deutsche Telekom AG, KPN, France Telecom-Orange, Telecom Italia and Telefónica) and infrastructure solutions vendors (Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, GENBAND, Italtel, Polycom, Quanta Computer, Huawei and ZTE).
HDVC, which is open to all interested parties, is built upon a simple and cooperative governance model. The Initiative has defined an open, interoperable and multi-operator environment (based on existing 3GPP, IETF and GSMA specifications) that supports easy-to-use services across networks and video equipment, regardless of the country of origin or destination of the call and overcoming the need for support of an operator’s service center.
This open environment will turn videoconferencing into a fully interoperable mass market service that enables each individual member to connect everything from mobile phones and tablets to large telepresence rooms into one globally supported network, fostering thegrowth of services thathas been constrained by the lack of interoperability among networks and manufacturers. Current videoconference services only work in closed solution environments and face significant difficulties when switching between networks and or video equipment from different manufacturers located in different countries.
Massive deployment of videoconferencing will make the collaboration between people and companies across different countries more efficient, helping to reduce travels and transportations costs and lowering carbon emissions, which will have a beneficial impact on the environment.
In the first half of 2013, national and international commercial trials, targeted to enterprise customers, will be executed by Telefonica, BT, Deutsche Telekom and Telecom Italia with support by Ericsson, Italtel, GENBAND, Quanta and Polycom as network and endpoint vendors, marking a major step forward towards full service’s commercialization opportunities by individual members.
About HDVC
The High Definition Video Conferencing Initiative (HDVC) is an open group of operators and manufacturers that collaborate to jointly agree on the usage of existing and emerging open standards for high quality video conferencing and communication in order to deploy and to promote video services in an IP-based telecommunications environment. The group is open for any company to join which is willing to support the Initiative’s activities towards the above mentioned goals.
| Alcatel-Lucent Mark Hudson Director, Communications Phone: +1.405.844.6827 Mark.Hudson@alcatel‐lucent.com |
BT Head of Network Media Relations Gemma Thomas +44 7356 5377 gemma.c.thomas@bt.com |
| Deutsche Telekom Corporate Communications Tel.: +49 228 181 ‐ 4949 presse@telekom.de |
Ericsson Corporate Public & Media Relations Phone: +46.10.719.69.92 media.relations@ericsson.com |
| GENBAND Corporate Communications Tel.: +1.972.521.5921 dennis.watson@genband.com |
Huawei Technologies Press Relations xiaotao@huawei.com Phone: +86.755.28780808  http://www.huawei.com/en/
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| Italtel Press Office Phone: +39.02.4388.5275 laura.borlenghi@italtel.it |
KPN Press Office Telephone +31 70 446 6300 Email press@kpn.com |
| France Telecom‐Orange Press Office vanessa.clarke@orange.com Phone: +44 7818 848 848 |
Polycom Sarah Brambley EMEA PR Manager, Polycom Phone: 07917 840718 |
| Quanta Computer Phone: +886.3.327.2345 H2.Sales@quantatw.com http://www.quantatw.com |
Telecom Italia Press Office +39.06.3688.2610 http://www.telecomitalia.com/media |
| Telefónica Press Office Phone: +34.91.482.38.00 prensa@telefonica.es |
ZTE Corporation Press Relations Tel: +86 755 26775207 Email:ma.gaili@zte.com.cn http://wwwen.zte.com.cn/en/ |
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