OVCC: "Any Vendor. Any Network. Any Device."

The Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC) (http://www.ovcc.net/) is a non-profit organization of communications technology leaders working together to enable video collaboration across any network, vendor platform and device. OVCC membership is open to any video communications network service provider (NSP), video communications managed or hosted service provider (MSP) or video network operations center (VNOC) provider interested in bringing ubiquitous video to the marketplace.

The organization just published a new White Paper, now available on UCStrategies.com: Open Visual Communications Consortium - A Path to Ubiquitous, Any-to-Any Video Communication. The paper is authored by Clint Edwards, VP of Solution Architecture for the Polycom Global Cloud and Service Provider Group, and chairman of the OVCC Technical Committee.

The vision of the organization is to create a world where visual and collaborative communications are ubiquitous, simple and reliable. The mission is to grow the overall business use of visual and collaborative communications through a framework of interconnected service providers enabled by technology suppliers that will simplify and provide an outstanding user experience.

For more information about OVCC activities, or to become a member, contact [email protected]. Board level founders include AT&T, BCS Global, BT, Orange Business Services, Polycom, Telstra, and Verizon. Board level sponsors include Cisco, Deutsche TeleKom AG, and Microsoft.