An institution of higher education holding an open or closed meeting by videoconference using compressed video shall use equipment meeting the minimum technical standards listed below for the type of network used. Use of equipment meeting these standards does not preclude the use of proprietary vendor protocols as long as the institution of higher education has received certification from the vendor stating that the vendor's equipment and proprietary software protocol release version meets or exceeds each of the specified standards.

1. (1) ITU-T Recommendation H.221-1999, Frame Structure for a 64 to 1920 kbit/s Channel in Audiovisual Teleservices.
2. (2) ITU-T Recommendation H.230-1999, Frame synchronous Control and Indication Signals for Audiovisual Teleservices.
3. (3) ITU-T Recommendation H.231-1997, Multipoint Control Units for Audiovisual Systems Using Digital Channels up to 2 Mbit/s.
4. (4) ITU-T Recommendation H.242-1999, System for Establishing Communications Between Audiovisual Terminals Using Digital Channels up to 2 Mbit/s.
5. (5) ITU-T Recommendation H.243-2000, Procedures for Establishing Communication Between Three or More Audiovisual Terminals Using Digital Channels up to 2 Mbit/s.
6. (6) ITU-T Recommendation H.245-2003, Control protocol for multimedia communication.
7. (7) ITU-T Recommendation H.261-1993, Video Codec for Audiovisual Services at px64 kbit/s.
8. (8) ITU-T Recommendation H.320-1999, Narrow-band Visual Telephone Systems and Terminal Equipment.
9. (9) ITU-T Recommendation H.323-2003, Packet-based multimedia communications systems.
10. (10) ITU-T Recommendation H.450-1998, Generic functional protocol for the support of supplementary services in H.323.

Source Note:The provisions of this §209.31 adopted to be effective November 28, 2004, 29 TexReg 10910.