Standards based? WTF???

So, the latest trend I'm seeing out in the field is customers, who had visited with a TAA sales team prior, are starting off the conversation with us wanting to know why we're not standards based???

Ok, cmon TAA, this is just ridiculous. Again, its just time wasted having to educate the customer and correct the FUD your throwing at them... we could be spending the time better by working through and helping the customer.

So, lets start to doucment all the funny stories I hear customers tell me in reference to standards compatability.

So first off... everyone... all products are based on standards. There are standards like MPEG1, 802.11, ITU G.722.1c, etc, etc

And there are standards based implementations.... for instance a standards based implemented video endpoint runs H.323, H.264, and G.722.1c.

So... just picking a standard like MPEG1 and putting it into your VTC system doesn't make it standards compliant...in fact, even though MPEG1 is a standard, it is not standardly implemented in VTC systems and can actually create problems if you put it in there.

Which leads me to fallacy #1 that I've heard lately from a customer that talked to TAA.

H.264 RCDO is not a VTC standard. If it was, you'd see PLCM, Sony, Lifesize, etc, etc implement it.