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Cisco has closed its purchase of Tandberg, after it named the organisation it will entrust with overseeing its key interoperability protocol for video conferencing.
The International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) will have the responsibility of ensuring that the protocol known as Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP) is made freely available to Cisco’s competitors. Divesting TIP to a third-party organisation was a condition of the European Commission’s approval for the Tandberg takeover.
Telepresence is a high-end video conferencing technology that is becoming increasingly adopted by businesses because of its high-definition images. T