RADVISION Initiates the H.460.17 Standard for Secured Communications over NAT/Firewall Traversal
RADVISION and Polycom cooperate with the ITU to develop the H.460 NAT/firewall traversal standards
Fair Lawn, New Jersey, November 14, 2005 -- RADVISION LTD. (Nasdaq: RVSN) today announced its role in the development of the recently standardized NAT/Firewall Traversal standards, and its commitment to the swift implementation of them into the RADVISION product portfolio. RADVISION as editor of two of the new standards realizes the immediate need for secured real-time visual communications enabling any H.323 based system communicating on an IP network to easily communicate across the periphery enforced by NAT or firewalls.
RADVISION’s contribution included the editorial work and the initiative of the H.460.17 standard, which is used for call signaling traversal through NAT/Firewall with improved security and the editorial work of H.460.19, which is the only standard solution for NAT/Firewall traversal of media in H.323.
Polycom contributed an editorial and technical contribution to the H.460.18 and H.460.19 standards including the addition of a common mode of authentication using H.235, H.235 encryption support, improved handling of unidirectional media flow and the simplification and improvement within the standard of NAT/Firewall Keep-Alive mechanism and multiplexing processes.
“RADVISION was one of the main contributors, working in conjunction with ITU to define the recently ratified standards for NAT/firewall traversal” said Eli Doron, RADVISION CTO. “By incorporating these new standards into our products which include our enabling technology and PathFinderTM solutions, we will support interoperability efforts with other manufacturer’s endpoints as they incorporate the new standards into their products.”
“In Polycom’s standards work, our focus is on how to simplify technical processes and reduce the implementation effort for a new standard, without reducing performance,” said Dave Lindbergh, Director of Standardization at Polycom. “Complex standards represent a real barrier to industry adoption; we are proud of our role in making H.460.18/.19 easier to implement, and expect rapid adoption in the marketplace.”
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