Cisco engineers have led the development of Internet Protocol (IP) networking technologies and contributed to industry open standards organizations. The company advocates open standards, since they allow customers to adopt new technologies with confidence.
Cisco technology groups commit significant engineering and marketing resources, to drive relevant open standards development. These groups help ensure broad industry adoption through involvement in key industry open standards bodies, including the IEEE, IETF, ITU, ETSI and ISO, and XMPP Standards Foundation.
Peter Saint-Andre, technical leader for Jabber Engineering in the Cisco WebEx organization, is an executive director of the XMPP Standards Foundation.
Customer-Centric Open Standards
Cisco Fellow Fred Baker summarized his philosophy of developing open standards: “Involvement with customers is perhaps the best use of my time.”
SCTP: Cross-Company Collaboration through SIGTRAN
Cisco Distinguished Engineers Randall Stewart and Peter Lei collaborated with colleagues from other organizations to define System Control Transport Protocol (SCTP) in 2000.
MPEG-4 over SCTP: Building Open Source on Open Standards
Cisco contributed to System Control Transport Protocol (SCTP) as an open standard and as open source, with a kernel implementation of SCTP for the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
The Cisco Contribution to Wireless Standards
Andrew Myles, Manager Wireless and Security Standards, Wireless & Security Technology Group (WSTG), notes that "interoperability is absolutely vital for wireless.”