Enterprise Connect, Orlando, FL – March 27, 2012 – Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced that it is ready to test H.264 and H.241 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) interoperability at the upcoming IMTC SuperOp! interoperability test event. Interoperability has been a key tenet of Vidyo’s solution since it was introduced in 2008. The development and rapid implementation of new industry-wide standards demonstrates Vidyo’s leadership and commitment to interoperability. Over the years Vidyo has been a key contributor to the various SVC-related standards within the ITU-T, the IETF and the UCI Forum.

The SuperOp! is an annual industry-wide interoperability test event organized by the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC). It seeks to promote interoperability across a range of technologies by allowing hands-on testing. Vidyo is a platinum sponsor of the event this year.

Vidyo was the first company to bring videoconferencing products to market based upon H.264 SVC . Today H.264 SVC is used in leading solutions from industry giants such as Google, Ricoh and many others who have licensed Vidyo’s technology. Vidyo implemented the recently standardized extension to the H.241 signaling standard to support H.264 SVC transmission. The H.241 standard is part of the H.300-series terminal specifications (which includes H.323) and is used to establish connections between such systems.

“The challenge facing the industry for organizations that use these solutions, or others based upon H.264 SVC as they come to market in the future, is to ensure that they can interoperate,” said Dr. Alex Eleftheriadis, co-founder and Chief Scientist, Vidyo. “We are excited that SVC systems that are based on H.323 can now interoperate. We worked within the ITU-T for the development and eventual standardization of the required H.241 SVC extensions, and today we are pleased to announce their first implementation.”

The availability of the H.241 SVC signaling specification means that there is now at least one standardized framework that allows different solutions that use H.264 SVC to communicate with each other in at least select configurations.  The upcoming IMTC SuperOp! in La Jolla, California (April 14-20) will be the first event where such interoperability can be tested. Vidyo invites all videoconferencing vendors who have H.264 SVC implementations to join us at IMTC’s SuperOp!

The Vidyo Difference

The Vidyo communication and collaboration platform is software-based, highly flexible and can be easily customized for individual enterprise and vertical market video conferencing needs. The patented VidyoRouter™ architecture introduces Adaptive Video Layering, which dynamically optimizes the video for each endpoint leveraging H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC)-based compression technology and Vidyo’s IP. Adaptive Video Layering eliminates the MCU and offers unprecedented error resiliency, low latency rate matching thus enabling natural, affordable, high-quality video to work over the Internet, LTE and 4G networks. The platform allows users to quickly leverage the latest hardware innovations and new consumer devices, making it uniquely attractive to partners. Vidyo has been active driving H.264 SVC and SIP videoconferencing interoperability in various standards bodies since 2005 (including ITU-T, IMTC and the UCI Forum).

Today, legacy endpoints and MCU’s can participate in any Vidyo conference through the VidyoGateway™ appliance. This appliance works with H.264 and H.263 media and SIP and H.323 signaling to enable customers to retain the use of their legacy video conferencing investments.

About Vidyo, Inc.
Vidyo, Inc. pioneered Personal Telepresence enabling natural, HD multi-point videoconferences on tablets and smart phones, PCs and Macs, room systems, gateways that interoperate with H.323 and SIP endpoints, telepresence solutions and affordable cloud-based broadcast solutions.  Learn more at www.vidyo.com, on the Blog or follow @vidyo on Twitter.

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The VIDYO logo is a registered trademark of Vidyo, Inc., VIDYO and the trademarks of the VIDYO family of products are trademarks of Vidyo, Inc. and the other trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners.

Vidyo Contact:
Kerry Ogata
kogata@vidyo.com
+1 (301) 717-4224

Enterprise Connect, Orlando, FL – March 26, 2012 – Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced the VidyoRouter™ Virtual Edition (VE), its next leap forward in massively-scalable, high-quality video conferencing, will be demonstrated at Enterprise Connect and available later this year. Vidyo was the first to virtualize the media plane to deliver scalable multipoint telepresence quality video conferencing in virtual computing environments.   VidyoRouter VE provides enterprises and service providers with unprecedented deployment flexibility in terms of their video conferencing infrastructure, enhancing their ability to meet usage needs and maximize investments.

“As an existing Vidyo Service Provider, we believe Vidyo’s support for virtualization presents a great opportunity for us,” said Clive Sawkins, CEO of BCS Global Networks Limited, a leading worldwide provider of managed video conferencing, telepresence and visual collaboration services. “The big differentiation in Vidyo’s strategy is that they can virtualize the media plane, which means we will be able to serve our existing customers much more efficiently, expand their footprints and enter new markets with greater speed, easily enabling customers who are looking to use video communications capabilities.  We have been working with Vidyo for several years now and the Vidyo platform is the basis of our iView Managed Telepresence and Video Collaboration service. We are already very impressed with the quality, flexibility and affordability of the Vidyo solution; being able to virtualize it is yet another major boost for us and our customers”

A recent Market Analysis report from Gartner (Competitive Landscape: SMB Videoconferencing Will Come from the Cloud, Worldwide; Published: 23 September 2011) advised vendors to “focus more effort on software-driven solutions for endpoints and infrastructure — these will provide both the cost points and the agility needed to develop new functions quickly in comparison to hardware-based solutions.” In the report Senior Analyst Scott Morrison stated, “Most SMBs don’t have the capital resources for traditional infrastructure or expensive endpoints, nor do they have dedicated IT staff capable of supporting such environments. Capturing that untapped market requires new approaches: software-based infrastructure solutions delivered from the cloud, coupled with softclients and low-cost group systems, all of which should be easy to use.”

“A virtualized VidyoRouter enables the enterprise and service providers to deploy on existing data center hardware or in the public cloud. They can provision capacity on-demand wherever and whenever needed, plus deliver video conferencing services across the globe without having to invest in dedicated appliances and fixed capacities and even get disaster recovery capacity for free,” said Ofer Shapiro, co-founder and CEO of Vidyo. “VidyoRouter VE is the only solution that virtualizes the media plane for massive scalability on demand with low latency and high call density per virtual processing resource.”

VidyoRouter Virtual Edition

VidyoRouter VE delivers the VidyoRouter’s unique functionality and performance within virtual computing environments such as VMware (When VidyoRouter VE becomes GA later this year, it will be available on VMware’s industry-leading virtualization platform.) All VidyoRouter editions deliver natural, universal and affordable video conferencing to mobile devices, PCs, room and telepresence systems over general purpose IP networks. Using Vidyo’s patented Adaptive Video Layering™ technology to eliminate the latency and intensive processing requirements of transcoding required by traditional MCU based solutions, VidyoRouter delivers individually optimized, low-latency video streams for any endpoint over any IP network.  As a result, VidyoRouter VE is uniquely able to deliver the very high concurrent connection density per virtual machine processing resource and native firewall traversal that is necessary to achieve cost effective scale.  Equally as important, it offers unmatched flexibility by bringing new geographies online in minutes and delivers a high level of business continuity assurance for video communications without the need to purchase and deploy redundant hardware appliances.

Benefits to Enterprise and Service Providers

Enterprises and service providers can now deliver HD videoconferencing with the same award-winning capabilities and quality associated with Vidyo’s physical VidyoRouter. Sharing licenses between sites and moving capacity between them are no possible creating a multiple of additional cost savings for multi-time zone operation or when disaster recover site needs to be created.

For enterprise customers, VidyoRouter VE reduces the costs of deployment and wide area network usage since it can be deployed on cloud computing resources anywhere in the world in minutes. This capability enables the enterprise to distribute the video conferencing infrastructure so that traffic can be localized anywhere there is a pocket of users, keeping more traffic on the lower cost LAN bandwidth and off of the higher cost WAN. For example, in the event that a company opens a new branch office, it has the flexibility to use its virtual VidyoRouters to enable the new branch office to immediately gain local access to VidyoConferencing. Additionally, the virtualized VidyoRouter leverages the existing capacity of an enterprise’s private or public data centers, which means no additional or purpose built hardware is required in any location to support the build-out of a distributed multipoint conferencing fabric.

With VidyoRouter VE, service providers can now offer unlimited multipoint scalability and low latency rate matching capability on-demand to accelerate the adoption of high quality, universal video conferencing on any endpoint. The product allows service providers to enter into new markets with little investment and risk by utilizing available cloud compute capacity instead of investing in physical plant and equipment ahead of demand or until a market is proven.  As those markets grow, the service provider can add capacity on demand in any region of service coverage by spinning up new instances of VidyoRouter VE equipped with floating concurrent connection licenses that are shared among all VidyoRouters in the network. The product provides service providers the opportunity to integrate with enterprise private deployment to make seamless transitions for corporate users to public networks using the same device. This capability drives utilization for the service provider and delivers greater value to the enterprise and its end users.

VidyoRouter VE has been named a finalist for the Best of Enterprise Connect award, which recognizes exhibitors who have made significant technological advancements within the enterprise communications industry. Conference attendees are invited to see VidyoRouter VE in action, and demos of other Vidyo solutions, including VidyoPanorama and VidyoMobile, at Enterprise Connect, Booth #631.

In a separate release, Vidyo also announced today that it is launching a White Label Program for resellers and distributors to offer co-branded hosted Vidyo services directly to their own customers without having to incur the costs of infrastructure, administration, maintenance and installation of a video conferencing system.

The Vidyo Difference

The Vidyo communication and collaboration platform is software-based, highly flexible and can be easily customized for individual enterprise and vertical market video conferencing needs. The patented VidyoRouter™ architecture introduces Adaptive Video Layering, which dynamically optimizes the video for each endpoint leveraging H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC)-based compression technology and Vidyo’s IP. Adaptive Video Layering eliminates the MCU and offers unprecedented error resiliency, low latency rate matching thus enabling natural, affordable, high-quality video to work over the Internet, LTE and 4G networks. The platform allows users to quickly leverage the latest hardware innovations and new consumer devices, making it uniquely attractive to partners. Vidyo has been active driving H.264 SVC and SIP videoconferencing interoperability in various standards bodies since 2005.

About Vidyo, Inc.
Vidyo, Inc. pioneered Personal Telepresence enabling natural, HD multi-point videoconferences on tablets and smart phones, PCs and Macs, room systems, gateways that interoperate with H.323 and SIP endpoints, telepresence solutions and affordable cloud-based broadcast solutions.  Learn more at www.vidyo.com, on the Blog or follow @vidyo on Twitter.

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The VIDYO logo is a registered trademark of Vidyo, Inc., VIDYO and the trademarks of the VIDYO family of products are trademarks of Vidyo, Inc. and the other trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners

Vidyo Contact:
Kerry Ogata
kogata@vidyo.com
+1 (301) 717-4224

Enterprise Connect, Orlando, FL – March 26, 2012 – Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced an industry-revolutionizing approach to address the needs of enterprise customers deploying video communications and collaboration as a service.  With the white label program, enterprise users benefit from simplified pricing for multi-point, telepresence-quality videoconferencing services that allow subscribers to conference with anyone with a mobile device, PC, Vidyo room system, or even a legacy end-point system, since Vidyo interoperates seamlessly with legacy systems.

With its White Label Service Provider Program, Vidyo is also creating an entirely new community of partners called Vidyo Virtual Network Operators (VVNO) that can offer Vidyo’s award-winning videoconferencing solutions as a service.  VVNOs are “infrastructure-less” videoconferencing service partners that can co-brand and sell Vidyo solutions as carrier-grade HD videoconferencing services to enterprises.  Vidyo’s white label program will allow carriers, telecommunication services providers, application services providers, distributors or value-added resellers to easily and quickly enter the video conferencing market without requiring up-front videoconferencing infrastructure investments.

“The videoconferencing industry has been stymied by hardware-based deployment and pricing models for too long; the White Label Program addresses enterprise demand for hosted videoconferencing solutions with a simplified pricing model that enterprises have become accustomed to with audio or web conferencing,” said Ashish Gupta, Vidyo’s CMO and SVP of Corporate Development.  “Vidyo’s white label service, offered by our global partners, will give service providers the opportunity to enter the rapidly growing videoconferencing market without requiring them to deploy infrastructure.”

Benefits of Vidyo’s White Label Program

The White Label Program significantly expands the ways enterprises can purchase VidyoConferencing by enabling Vidyo Virtual Network Operators (VVNOs) to deliver HD multipoint video conferencing services with a simplified pricing model to enterprise customers; starting at a MSRP of $30 per named user per month and a MSRP of $0.2 per minute for each legacy-based guest joining the conference.  Using the white label service offered by Vidyo’s partners, VVNOs can rapidly enter the fast-growing video conferencing market without needing to deploy infrastructure while increasing their average revenue per user (ARPU) by complementing their portfolio of enterprise services with high quality VidyoConferencing.  The program is built on Vidyo’s unique software architecture that enables service providers to offer high-quality video conferencing for mobile, desktop and room system end-points at substantially reduced costs than legacy solutions. Additionally, Vidyo’s solution interoperates seamlessly with existing legacy infrastructure investments, enabling unlimited collaboration between registered subscribers and up to five invited guests. This completely removes the need for any enterprise to buy legacy MCUs.

The Vidyo Difference

The Vidyo communication and collaboration platform is software-based, highly flexible and can be easily customized for individual enterprise and vertical market video conferencing needs. The patented VidyoRouter™ architecture introduces Adaptive Video Layering™, which dynamically optimizes the video for each endpoint leveraging H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC)-based compression technology and Vidyo’s IP. Adaptive Video Layering eliminates the MCU and offers unprecedented error resiliency, low latency rate matching thus enabling natural, affordable, high-quality video to work over the Internet, LTE and 4G networks. The platform allows users to quickly leverage the latest hardware innovations and new consumer devices, making it uniquely attractive to partners. Vidyo has been active driving H.264 SVC and SIP videoconferencing interoperability in various standards bodies since 2005.

Vidyo today also announced the VidyoRouter™ Virtual Edition (VE), its next leap forward in massively-scalable, high-quality video conferencing.  VidyoRouter VE is the first and only available solution that virtualizes the media plane in a scalable manner, delivering multipoint video conferencing in virtual computing environments at audio conferencing price points which will have a significant impact on reducing the costs of delivery for White label providers.

About Vidyo, Inc.
Vidyo, Inc. pioneered Personal Telepresence enabling natural, HD multi-point videoconferences on tablets and smart phones, PCs and Macs, room systems, gateways that interoperate with H.323 and SIP endpoints, telepresence solutions and affordable cloud-based broadcast solutions.  Learn more at www.vidyo.com, on the Blog or follow @vidyo on Twitter.

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The VIDYO logo is a registered trademark of Vidyo, Inc., VIDYO and the trademarks of the VIDYO family of products are trademarks of Vidyo, Inc. and the other trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners.

Vidyo Contact:  Kerry Ogata/kogata@vidyo.com /+1 (301) 717-4224

HACKENSACK, NJ – March 21, 2012 — Vidyo, Inc., demonstrated today telepresence grade, low-latency, multipoint video conferencing with 3 mega pixel content sharing on Apple’s new iPad. The demonstration over a 4G LTE network connection expands access to high definition videoconferencing, showing participants joining a conference from a variety of endpoints. This is the latest in a succession of Vidyo industry firsts, which includes being the first company to demonstrate HD quality, low-latency video conferencing on the iPad 2 and on the iPhone 4S over every day mobile, work and home networks. VidyoMobile™ is further enhanced by the latest iPad’s new Retina™ display, delivering incomparable data sharing, enhancing the user experience on Apple’s newly unveiled tablet. VidyoMobile for the new iPad is available via the Apple App Store. Here is a video demo of VidyoMobile’s amazing quality on the new iPad:

With Vidyo’s award-winning VidyoMobile solution, enterprise customers are able to offer high-quality videoconferencing access to their growing mobile workforce. As 4G LTE networks and devices become more widely used, Vidyo’s technology allows users to seamlessly join HD Vidyo conferences with superior quality from the new iPad, and participate in conferences with a wide variety of endpoints including other smartphones and tablets, laptops, desktops, telepresence and HD room systems.  Connecting over 4G LTE networks means no longer having to be tied to a room to experience telepresence quality conferencing. VidyoMobile gives you true flexibility to universally connect from anywhere. Vidyo will be demonstrating the app running on the new iPad at Enterprise Connect in Orlando, Booth #631, from March 26 to March 28.

“VidyoMobile on the new iPad provides a highly compelling user experience for the enterprise video conferencing customer,” said Ofer Shapiro, CEO and co-founder of Vidyo. “The 2047 x 1536 pixel display allows us to provide a level of HD videoconferencing resolution never before seen on a tablet device, including 3 mega pixel application sharing capability, allowing Vidyo to unlock and expand new applications and usage models. The next generation iPad has the potential to open new doors and ubiquitous video conferencing adoption among enterprise customers who will expect a level of reliability and quality which can only be delivered through Vidyo’s unique architecture. It becomes increasingly difficult to justify investment in expensive purpose built devices when you can get higher performance and better user experiences on devices that people already have and use in normal course of workflow.”

The new iPad’s 3MP Retina display leverages VidyoMobile’s data sharing feature, offering greater detail in content collaboration for vertical market applications like healthcare, government, education and manufacturing.  Several Vidyo customers already use content sharing to enhance collaboration, for example, schools conduct virtual learning sessions using iPads, geographically dispersed manufacturing organizations enhance productivity by collaborating globally, and construction companies sharing blue prints to expedite decision making on remote projects without requiring expensive travel.

“VidyoMobile on the iPad provides physicians at Miami Children’s Hospital with a critical tool for treating patients as well as for clinical decision-making with other physicians,” said Ed Martinez, CIO at Miami Children’s Hospital.  ”The superb clarity of VidyoMobile on the iPad allows real-time collaboration. The new iPad’s increased screen resolution has the potential to enhance the ability of our physicians to diagnose and treat patients from wherever they are, not just in their offices or within the hospital boundaries.”

Like all Vidyo endpoints, VidyoMobile can join conferences with more than 100 other participants, with the unique ability to pinch to zoom and individually select the participants would like to view.

 
The Vidyo Difference

The Vidyo communication and collaboration platform is software-based, highly flexible and can be easily customized for individual enterprise and vertical market video conferencing needs. The VidyoRouter™ is based on the company’s patented AdaptiveVideoLayering™ architecture and leverages H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC)-based technology.  It eliminates the MCU and offers unprecedented error resiliency, low latency and rate matching enabling natural, affordable, high quality video to work over the Internet, LTE, 3G and 4G networks. The Vidyo platform allows users to quickly leverage the latest hardware innovations and new consumer devices, making it uniquely attractive to partners. Vidyo has been active driving H.264 SVC and SIP videoconferencing interoperability in various standards bodies since 2005.

About Vidyo, Inc.

Vidyo, Inc. pioneered Personal Telepresence enabling natural, HD multi-point videoconferences on tablets and smart phones, PCs and Macs, room systems, gateways that interoperate with H.323 and SIP endpoints, telepresence solutions and affordable cloud-based broadcast solutions.  Learn more at www.vidyo.com, on the Blog or follow @vidyo on Twitter.

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The VIDYO logo is a registered trademark of Vidyo, Inc., VIDYO and the trademarks of the VIDYO family of products are trademarks of Vidyo, Inc. and the other trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners.

Vidyo Contact:
Kerry Ogata
kogata@vidyo.com
(301) 717-4224