Unified Communications Interoperability Forum
| Motto | Maximizing the value of UC through Interoperability |
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| Merged into | International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Extinction | 2014 |
| Type | Non-governmental organization |
| Focus | Communications Technology Interoperability |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Members
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17 companies |
| Website | http://www.ucif.org |
The Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF) is a non-profit alliance between communications technology vendors. It was announced on May 19, 2010, with the vision to maximize the interoperability of UC based on existing standards. Founding members of UCIF were HP, Microsoft, Polycom, Logitech / LifeSize Communications, and Juniper Networks. On July 28, 2014 UCIF merged with International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) into one consortium.
Unified communications (UC) is the integration of real-time communication services such as instant messaging (chat), presence information, Telephony (including IP telephony), video conferencing, call control and speech recognition with non real-time communication services such as unified messaging (integrated voicemail, e-mail, SMS and fax). UC is not a single product, but a set of products that provides a consistent unified user interface and user experience across multiple devices and media types.
UC also refers to a trend to offer business process integration, i.e. to simplify and integrate all forms of communications in view to optimize business processes and reduce the response time, manage flows and eliminate device and media dependencies.
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