A number of united communications dealer as well as Microsoft, Polycom and Hewlett-Packard contain shaped the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum, a collection to ensure all the pieces needed for collaboration will work jointly.

UCIF also contains Juniper and Logitech between its creators and had at least 12 other members as of Tuesday, the day before the official release of the group. Cisco Systems & Avaya, the two biggest players in UC, had been discovered but had not combined the organization.

United communications (UC) is the mixture of voice, video and text for partnership between people in one enterprise or amongst diverse organizations. The tip of a UC system is to be able to easily change from one method of communication to a different and to merge the various modes in one session depending on which tools each participant has.

Another problem is that there are numerous protocols to select from in each of these areas and different legitimate ways to implement the same protocol, he said.