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Featured Articles » Survey: Small Businesses Steadily Making the Switch to VoIP » Blackberry Launches BBM Meetings Voice and Video Conferencing Solution » VoIP is Foundation of UC » UCaaS Market Set for Explosive Three-Year Growth » Fort Worth Council Adopts Video Conferencing Tech   Sponsored By: WebRTC Conference & Expo – November 18-20, 2014   San Jose, CA Hear How WebRTC Will Improve Internal & Customer Facing Communications to Drive Revenue Opportunities for Your Enterprise Explore Changes in Enterprise Communications: Economic Impacts, Technical & Developer Issues, WebRTC Standards & Tools Register & Exhibit Today: www.webrtcexpo.com   Top Stories » Vonage Aims for Larger Customers with Planned UCaaS Acquisition » BT: Comsumerization a Main Driver in Increased Irish UC Adoption » Business 'Mobile Apps' Will Need UC Expertise » Video Conferencing Gains a Foothold in Legal Circles » Report: Global VoIP Services Market to Reach $137 Billion by 2020   From The Expert Corner November 17, 2014 It Appears the End is Near for WebRTC Video Codec Wars By Peter Bernstein Senior Editor For those who follow WebRTC closely you are more painfully aware that even as WebRTC support is now part of over 60 percent of the world’s browsers (Chrome, Fireox and Opera and soon Microsoft’s Internet Explorer) there has been a disagreement over which video codec should be mandatory. Indeed, the battle between advocates of VP8 versus H.264 has been cited numerous time as one of the major, if  the major obstacle to universal support and rapid market adoption, along with Apple and until recently Microsoft not supporting the standards work on WebRTC in their respective browsers.  The good news, at least on the video codec front, comes from a blog this past weekend posted by none other than Andreas Gal, Chief Technology Officer of Mozilla.  And, this really is good news, if it is true that everyone has agreed to stop pointing their guns at each other and put them back in their holsters. As Gal recites in his brief history of the challenge here, it was two years ago that the IETF RTCWEB Working Group with relative ease gave the nod to legacy codec G.711 and the newer and more advanced Opus codecs for audio.  But, as noted, video has been a bone of contention, and Gal does a nice job of summarizing why. As he points out while both have merits, VP can be deployed without having to pay licensing fees, and H.264 has a massive installed base with license to contend with...Read More Read more about Cable, Satellite, Information Technology   Featured Video The WebRTC Opportunity   TMCnet Free Premium Content » The Journey to Workforce Optimization (WFO) » Implementing Integrated Multi-Technology Networks » How Connecting Devices and Data can Transform an Industry » Is your business ready for hosted enterprise voice and collaboration?   Featured Channels » Hosted PBX » IP Communications » Enterprise Communications   Webinars Download One of Our Webinars Today to learn about new opportunities to enhance your business. http://www.tmcnet.com/webinar/   Become a TMCnet Columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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