ViTA Forum set up to certify VoIP products
July 28th, 2006 - Posted in VoIPThe government-funded Industrial Technology Research Institute announced July 12 that it had established the ViTA Forum to set certification standards for Voice over Internet Protocol products made in Taiwan.
Playing on the Latin word vita, meaning “life,” and an abbreviation of “VoIP Taiwan,” the ViTA Forum hopes its logo will become globally recognized and thus help VoIP product manufacturers from Taiwan–already the world’s top VoIP manufacturing nation–raise their market profile.
“Certainly Taiwan has a great opportunity in the VoIP market,” proclaimed Paul Lin, general-director of ITRI’s Computer and Communications Research Labs, who was recently selected by forum members as its first chairman. ViTA Forum was founded by ITRI and seven major manufacturers.
Together they aim to create a certification system that improves not only the quality but also the conformity of all kinds of VoIP products including, initially, IP phones, VoIP gateways and other customer premise equipment products. Certification will later be extended to business-end products such as Internet protocol/private branch exchange.
The forum plans to establish a test lab by the end of 2006, providing certification services targeted on conformance, voice quality and interoperability. Within another 12 months, the lab should be capable of providing certification services for security, performance and other categories.
Source: publish.gio.gov.tw