Comments on: Video meetings guest access: the new frontier of interoperability

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 13:16:21 +0000

In reply to Gavin Henry. Nothing changes I fear. Federation isn't in the interest of most of the vendors, especially not the bigger ones.

By: Gavin Henry

Gavin Henry — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 13:01:15 +0000

What does this look like post lockdown Aug 2020?

Could have been done with XMPP Federation?

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 13:59:39 +0000

In reply to Anders Myklebost.

Anders,

Andy explains this best in his recent post: https://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2019/12/zoom-is-eating-fuze-and-bluejeans-lunch.html

Having the right technology isn’t a guarantee for success. Zoom is eating up the lunch of many video centric services. And the rest gets squeezed out due to the ever growing roster of startups (and big companies) introducing video services via WebRTC.

By: Anders Myklebost

Anders Myklebost — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 09:21:51 +0000

Hi Tsahi,

Thank you for a great article.

How will this affect Blue Jeans, Pexip etc?

Cheers
Anders

By: Aswath Rao

Aswath Rao — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:23:32 +0000

As you point out guest access has been available for a while. I think the noteworthy item is that the downloaded call control JS can drive the other system’s UI.

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 03:33:19 +0000

In reply to Philipp Hancke. :-)

By: Philipp Hancke

Philipp Hancke — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:34:44 +0000

Originally “federation” described the email-like world where all the stuff you describe wasn’t necessary. Sad that Microsoft took over the term…

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 03:40:48 +0000

In reply to Ham. Thanks for the insights Ham

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 03:40:35 +0000

In reply to Silvia Pfeiffer. I believe it is a Microsoft Teams URL can be opened by a Cisco WebEx Room system.

By: Ham

Ham — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 01:10:09 +0000

Great Article Tsahi!

I’ve mainly lived in Zoom enviornments over the last few career stops and never had an issue with Zoom’s WebRTC experience (though limited in feature parity to its desktop).

Interestingly Zoom also was earlier than MS or Cisco on bridging non federated to third party systems (WebEx, BJ) although riding H. 323 not through a WebRTC realm, and I believe Zoom just recently commited a similar commit to non federated interop with Teams.

Thanks for the insight!

Cheers,
Ham