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IMTC Status May 10th, 2000

IMTC Status May 10th, 2000. Matt Collier President IMTC. 12th IMTC Forum. Spring 2000 - Ottawa, Canada “ Rich Media Services, Access and Products: Scaling Multi Media to Business and Consumers” Previous Forums: 11th - Fall 1999- Keystone, Co - USA

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IMTC Status May 10th, 2000

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  1. IMTC Status May 10th, 2000 Matt CollierPresidentIMTC

  2. 12th IMTC Forum • Spring 2000 - Ottawa, Canada • “Rich Media Services, Access and Products: Scaling Multi Media to Business and Consumers” • Previous Forums: • 11th - Fall 1999- Keystone, Co - USA • “Building Blocks: New Technologies for the Millennium” • 10th - Spring 1999- Munich, Germany • “Conferencing over IP-Where we Stand”

  3. Our Progress:From Keystone to Ottawa • Pioneer and Leadership Awards • Membership Growth • Board and Officer Changes • Interoperability Testing Rules of Engagement • Administrative Information

  4. Pioneer Award History • IMTC Board Considerations and Parameters: • Award leadership in multi-media communications • Recognize significant contribution by an individual or company • Recognizing both seen and unseen contributions • Recognize the importance of creating and working with in industry effort providing collaborative contributions to a product type, protocol profile, or service offering • Create an environment that allows for innovation to happen!

  5. Pioneer Award Criteria - Year 1 • Created, developed and released new business products in the area of multi-media communications - products or services • Launched leading companies that created opportunity for other companies and/or individuals as a means of achieving success • Companies, products and technologies created by these winners, laid the foundation for the evolution to the next generation of multi-media communication - products or services • Their commitment to multi-media communications and industry collaboration set the model for accelerating the development and deployment of products or services through and with industry consortia activities

  6. Pioneer Award Winner • Jeff Bernstein

  7. Pioneer Award Winner • Rubin Gruber

  8. Pioneer Award Winner • Brian Hinman

  9. Team Innovator Award • iNOW! Activity Group

  10. Team Innovator Award - iNOW! • Jim Yu, ITXC • Terry Anderson, Lucent • Elad Sion, VocalTec • Vineet Kumar, Intel • Greg Myer, Intel

  11. Team Innovator Award • aHIT! Activity Group

  12. Team Innovator Award - aHIT! • Ayse Dilber, Att • Wenchu Ying, Att • Raj Srikantiah, Bell Atlantic • Matt Beal, Nexbell Communications • Richard Brennan, GRIC • Terry Anderson, Lucent • Turhan Tankut, Cisco Systems • David Wang, Nuera Communications

  13. Individual Innovator Award • Bob Seiler

  14. IMTC Leadership Awards - Fall 2000 • Nominations will open in early summer for fall nominations, (check with IV on correct contact) • All member companies will be provided with an opportunity to nominate and vote for candidates • Anyone can be nominated • groups or individuals • standards bodies or companies • Meet criteria mentioned in previous slide • more details to come...

  15. “Rich Media Services, Access and Products: Scaling Multi Media to Business and Consumers” • This Forum Overview: • Internet Appliances • Single and multi-functional for voice and/or video • Alternate Networks (DSL, Cable, etc…) • Streaming Products and Services • Web based collaboration tools • ASP, CASP’s, and TASP’s • Multi-protocol Infrastructure • Softswitch Technologies Becoming Mainstream • Enhanced Network Management

  16. ACT CORPORATION ACULAB PLC AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES AVM CIRILIUM CORPORATION CONNECT DIRECT GRIC COMMUNICATIONS, INC. HYUNDAI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDE ASSOCIATES PRIVATE LIMITED INNOVAPHONE GmbH InterVoiceBrite ipGen, Inc. ITEC-TELECOM MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC FRANCE MOCKINBIRD NETWORKS NUERA COMMUNICATIONS POSTECH RICT SOFTWAY SS8 NETWORKS, INC. STARLINE COMMUNICATIONS TDSOFT TELEKOPM SERBIA THE INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE TOP TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS visitalk.com New Members Since Keystone (27) - Fall Forum 11/99

  17. IMTC Membership by Region North America80 (55%) Europe/Israel 36 (25%) Asia/Pacific 27 (19%) South America 2 (1%) TOTAL 145 Total Members

  18. IMTC Members by Region

  19. Narjala Bhasker, Intel Matt Collier, Polycom Toby Nixon, Microsoft Ian Parke, BT Raj Banjsal, Nokia Jim Polizotto, VTEL Armin Schubert, Deutsche Telekom Karen Frazier, MCI Worldcom Jean Leclercq, France Telecom Michelle Blank, RADVision Keith Lantz, Cisco Ben Schuurink, KPN Telecom Istvan Sebestyen, Siemens Neil Starkey, IBM/DataBeam Martin Welt, Lucent Board of Directors 2000-2001 1998-2000

  20. IMTC Officers1999-2000 • President Matt Collier, Polycom • Executive Vice President Ian Parke, BT • Treasurer Jim Polizotto, VTEL • Vice President-Americas Patrick Luthi, PictureTel • Vice President-Europe Graham Seabrook, Ridgeway Systems & Software • Vice President-Asia Pacific TBD • Secretary Deepak Kamlani, Interprise Ventures

  21. IMTC Activity Group Chairs • Greg Meyer, Intel Corporation Conferencing Over IP • Peter Warwick, Lucent H.320 Interop • Bob Seiler, PictureTel H.320 Interop • Jim Ju, ITXC Corporation iNOW! • Senthil Sengodan, Nokia Mobility • Sridhar Ramachandran, Nextone Communications Mobility • Alok De, Hughes Software Systems Voice Coder • Dave Lindbergh, PictureTel Voice Coder • Imre Varga, Siemens Voice Coder • Ayse Delber, AT&T aHIT! • Chuck Grandgent, Octave Dataconferencing • Michelle Blank, RADVision Marketing

  22. Technology Steering Committee,Ian Parke • Focus and Direction • Work Plan Integration • System & Network Testing Implementation • Usability

  23. IMTC Focus • 1). Drive adoption of Multimedia teleconferencing standards developed by the (ITU), ETSI, IETF and other stds group. • 2). Sponsor and Conduct interoperability testing events for all standards; products and services. • 3). Educate the business and consumer communities on the status, value and benefits of these technologies and on practical application.

  24. Interoperability Testing Events -“Guidelines for IMTC Activity Group Interoperability Events”

  25. “The IMTC Activity Group Interoperability Events are neither tradeshows nor competitive events. Some vendors work with prerelease code and, consequently, participants are expected to respect the privacy of others. Results of each testing session are not publicly posted. By participating in this event, you agree not to individually disclose, comment on or otherwise characterize the results of the interoperability testing or operation of any individual vendor’s equipment without that vendor’s prior written consent. “The IMTC Activity Group Interoperability Events are neither tradeshows nor competitive events. Some vendors work with prerelease code and, consequently, participants are expected to respect the privacy of others. Results of each testing session in such Events are not publicly posted. By participating in such an Event, you and you company agree not to individually disclose, in any manner*, comment on or otherwise characterize the results of the interoperability testing or of the operation of any individual vendor’s equipment generated at such an Event without the relevant vendor’s prior written consent. Guidelines for IMTC Activity Group Interoperability Events The Old Version The New Version *Red color indicates changes:

  26. Consistent with the goals of the event, the IMTC may publicize overall, general results through press releases and post-Event briefings of selected industry analysts and press. This will include general event information, names of the participating vendors, and the collective results of the testing. By participating in this event, you agree not to separately disclose, comment on or otherwise characterize the results of the interoperability testing, or operation of any individual vendor’s equipment, without that vendor’s prior written consent. Consistent with the goals of the event, the IMTC may publicize overall, general results through press release and post-Event briefings of selected industry analysts and press. This will include general Event information, names of the participating vendors, and the collective results of the testing. Members may issue press releases that discuss their companies’ general involvement in the Events in accordance with IMTC public relations policy the IMTC public relations policy. Guidelines for IMTC Activity Group Interoperability Events The Old Version The New Version *Red color indicates changes:

  27. Guidelines for IMTC Activity Group Interoperability Events • The IMTC interoperability Events are strictly engineering Events. No marketing personnel or other observers are allowed at the Events, and no soliciting is allowed. Additionally, only products to be tested will be allowed and no equipment demonstrations of any kind will be allowed. • The IMTC interoperability Events are strictly engineering Events. No marketing personnel or other observers are allowed at the Events, and no soliciting is allowed. Additionally, only products to be tested will be allowed and no equipment demonstrations of any kind will be allowed.

  28. Guidelines for IMTC Activity Group Interoperability Events • You agree that, in the event of any substantiated breach of these guidelines the Board of Directors (“Board”) may by majority vote take any necessary and reasonable corrective action against the offending member. The corrective action by the Board may include, without limitation, the following : 1. A demand upon the member to write and send a letter of apology to either the Board and/or and other member and/or any third party, together with a written assurance that the breach (or similar breach) will not occur again. The Board shall have the discretion to approve by majority vote the content of any such letter of apology before it is sent. 2. A demand upon the member to issue a statement of apology at an IMTC event. The Board shall have the discretion to approve by a majority vote the content of any such statement of apology and the manner of distribution. 3. A demand upon the member to issue a press release for the purpose of correcting any false statements and/or inaccurate test information and/or any other information previously disclosed by the member in breach of these guidelines. The Board shall have the discretion to approve by majority vote the content of any such press release and the manner of distribution.

  29. Guidelines for IMTC Activity Group Interoperability Events • Failure of the member to comply with the Board’s demand shall be grounds for the suspension of participation in IMTC interoperability Events each for a period of not less than one year and/or immediate termination from membership in accordance with the termination provisions of the IMTC by-laws. Not earlier than one year following the termination of membership, the member may apply for re-admission by special petition to the Board.

  30. By signing below, I acknowledge that I have full authority on behalf of [insert name of company] to do so and I am expressly authorized by [insert name of company] to bind [insert name of company] to the terms of these terms. On behalf of [insert name of company] , I acknowledge and agree that these terms are binding upon [insert name of company] . By signing below, you agree to the terms of the Rules of Engagement as stated above. Any violation of the Rules of Engagement is subject to review by IMTC’s Board of Directors and corrective action as resolved and communicated by the IMTC Board. Guidelines for IMTC Activity Group Interoperability Events The Old Version The New Version *Red color indicates changes:

  31. Beyond This Meeting • Test Products! • Evaluate Profiles (iNOW! and aHIT!) • Propose new work items to AG’s and TSC • Work with all standards bodies • Participate in interoperability events

  32. Pioneers • Reflect on why, what, and who these Pioneers are and why they were recognized at this forum, and use them as personal and professional examples for...

  33. WorldWide Web Homepage http://www.imtc.org IMTC Members E-mail Reflector members@imtc.org Used for general member communications IMTC Members FTP Site ftp.imtc-files.org Open to industry for anonymous ftp Matt Collier, Polycom mcollier@polycom.com 703-476-8569 Member & Industry Communications

  34. Thanks!

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