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Vidyo Company Profile
Vidyo Company Profile:
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Website: http://www.vidyo.com
Headquarters: Hackensack, NJ
Founded: 2005
Public/Private: Private, venture-backed
Company Details
Industry Categories: HD video communications infrastructure and endpoints ranging from PC/Mac soft clients to telepresence room systems and interoperability with H.323 and SIP end points.
Key Customers:
Ammex, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, John Deere, Kyoto Bank, Northwestern University, Webhelp, and others .
Partners:
Google, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, ShoreTel, Teliris and others
Resellers:
Comiris Group, Comm3, CoroWare, First Connections, Ltd., HS Digital, ID Solutions, OmniPresence, Videocall, Videra Oy, Videre Conferencing, Visionality and others.
Vidyo as a service: Connexus, Tempura Communications, Comiris CSP, Soltrite and others.
Company Mission:
Vidyo pioneered 'personal telepresence' by being the first to enable multi-party video conferences with natural, HD-quality interactions over general purpose IP networks using commodity desktop, laptop, and smartphone systems as endpoints. VidyoConferencing uses patented technology which leverages the H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) standard and is recognized for delivering very low latency and error resiliency.
Vidyo Products:
At the heart of the Vidyo implementation is the VidyoRouter which manages up to 100 concurrent HD multi-point VidyoLine connections in real time. The VidyoRouter doesn't transcode video streams like traditional MCUs of competitive solutions but, instead, intelligently routes video streams to individual endpoints based upon its current bandwidth, processing power, and requested resolution dynamically throughout the call. This revolutionary approach to multi-point video conferencing enables Vidyo to deliver dynamic rate and resolution matching as well as error localization so that endpoints with a range of capabilities and varying quality network connections can be connected in the same conference with each performing up to its maximum capability. Additionally, since all of the encode and decode functions are performed at the endpoints, individuals can control their video layout independently of all other users in the conference. Since routing is a substantially less processing intensive than transcoding, the VidyoRouter also eliminates the delay in the video stream that has traditionally hindered natural collaborative experiences in MCU-based solutions.
Unlike competitive solutions that require dedicated appliances for NAT and firewall traversal, VidyoProxy is a software solution embedded in the VidyoDesktop client and VidyoRouter, making firewall traversal for remote users automatic and at no additional cost. When set to auto-detection, VidyoProxy will autonomously negotiate the VidyoLine through which connection is established to the VidyoRouter. VidyoProxy also offers flexibility in deployment topology and can be implemented on a separate server in the DMZ if desired.
The VidyoGateway provides interoperability with H.323 and SIP based endpoints and MCUs. The VidyoGateway is implemented as an edge device of the Vidyo network so that the SVC enabled endpoints continue to benefit from the VidyoRouter architecture while the H.323 and SIP participants receive the transcoded video that they need. When deployed on the same LAN as the H.323/ SIP device, the VidyoGateway can be used to provide superior error resiliency not normally available to H.323/ SIP endpoints, thus eliminating the need for expensive QoS networks.
VidyoPortal is a web-based application that provides access, authentication and administration to users and administrators alike. Accessible via URL, the portal allows administrators to configure and enable user privileges and set policies across the organization. Users visit the portal to login to their account and initiate or join a conference in progress. The portal includes an intelligent directory and personal speed-dial capability. A plug-in for the Microsoft Office Communicator is available for Windows user that engages the video service directly from within the Microsoft Office Communicator contact list.
VidyoRoom is a portfolio of three codecs:
VidyoDesktop is the Macintosh, Windows, or Linux client that is downloaded and installed automatically the first time a user attempts to login at the VidyoPortal, either as a registered user or as a guest. The VidyoDesktop turns off-the-shelf computers with webcams into personal telepresence endpoints capable of encoding 720p30 and decoding 1080p30.
Vidyo Technology
The cornerstone of the Vidyo portfolio is the VidyoRouter architecture, which leverages Scalable Video Coding (SVC) technology, and permeates both the company's products and its partners' services, forming the basis for its technology licenses.SVC was standardized in 2007 as Annex G of the H.264 video compression standard. It defines four optional modalities that seek to deliver the highest quality user experience in spite of packet loss and variable bit rates typical with modern IP networks. These four modalities are:
Vidyo achieves delivery of an HD quality experience with PC, room system and legacy equipment while avoiding the need for specialized QoS such as MPLS network services.
Vidyo-as-a-Service
Several service providers have implemented Vidyo-as-a-service where they use the VidyoRouter, VidyoPortal and other Vidyo products, enabling PC and room-based HD video conferencing in a secure and professional setting, without the administrative overhead of actually licensing, deploying and operating the VidyoConferencing infrastructure. These service providers focus on addressing the needs of business users in specific territories, select industries and small businesses all over the Internet, LTE, 3G or 4G networks.
VidyoHealth
The VidyoHealth product family was designed to provide a reliable, unified, high-definition, multi-platform video conferencing environment specifically geared toward facilitating real-time, face-to-face interaction between and among care providers and patients from anywhere, to anywhere, over low-cost general purpose IP networks, including the public Internet. Utilizing a variety of endpoints ranging from laptop computers to telepresence room systems and the patented VidyoRouter architecture, VidyoHealth is designed to scale from tens to hundreds of thousands of users. The system is designed to support both individual practitioners and service providers or telemedicine organizations, which provide services to hospitals, clinics and government healthcare and human development organizations.
VidyoCampus
The VidyoCampus program simplifies buying a VidyoConferencing system for large scale university deployments by offering a single site license that represents a bundle of VidyoRouter appliances, VidyoRouter multipoint conferencing VidyoLine software licenses, VidyoPortal seat software appliance and VidyoDesktop client downloads. VidyoCampus site licenses are priced to be affordable in any school's budget and are tiered by the total number of students enrolled in the university. If the system needs to be expanded beyond the VidyoCampus site license, additional components may be purchased as needed. You can also add room systems with VidyoRooms that are HD as well.
![vidyo[1].jpg](http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/vidyo%5B1%5D.jpg)
Website: http://www.vidyo.com
Headquarters: Hackensack, NJ
Founded: 2005
Public/Private: Private, venture-backed
Company Details
Industry Categories: HD video communications infrastructure and endpoints ranging from PC/Mac soft clients to telepresence room systems and interoperability with H.323 and SIP end points.
Key Customers:
Ammex, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, John Deere, Kyoto Bank, Northwestern University, Webhelp, and others .
Partners:
Google, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, ShoreTel, Teliris and others
Resellers:
Comiris Group, Comm3, CoroWare, First Connections, Ltd., HS Digital, ID Solutions, OmniPresence, Videocall, Videra Oy, Videre Conferencing, Visionality and others.
Vidyo as a service: Connexus, Tempura Communications, Comiris CSP, Soltrite and others.
Company Mission:
Vidyo pioneered 'personal telepresence' by being the first to enable multi-party video conferences with natural, HD-quality interactions over general purpose IP networks using commodity desktop, laptop, and smartphone systems as endpoints. VidyoConferencing uses patented technology which leverages the H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) standard and is recognized for delivering very low latency and error resiliency.
Vidyo Products:
At the heart of the Vidyo implementation is the VidyoRouter which manages up to 100 concurrent HD multi-point VidyoLine connections in real time. The VidyoRouter doesn't transcode video streams like traditional MCUs of competitive solutions but, instead, intelligently routes video streams to individual endpoints based upon its current bandwidth, processing power, and requested resolution dynamically throughout the call. This revolutionary approach to multi-point video conferencing enables Vidyo to deliver dynamic rate and resolution matching as well as error localization so that endpoints with a range of capabilities and varying quality network connections can be connected in the same conference with each performing up to its maximum capability. Additionally, since all of the encode and decode functions are performed at the endpoints, individuals can control their video layout independently of all other users in the conference. Since routing is a substantially less processing intensive than transcoding, the VidyoRouter also eliminates the delay in the video stream that has traditionally hindered natural collaborative experiences in MCU-based solutions.
Unlike competitive solutions that require dedicated appliances for NAT and firewall traversal, VidyoProxy is a software solution embedded in the VidyoDesktop client and VidyoRouter, making firewall traversal for remote users automatic and at no additional cost. When set to auto-detection, VidyoProxy will autonomously negotiate the VidyoLine through which connection is established to the VidyoRouter. VidyoProxy also offers flexibility in deployment topology and can be implemented on a separate server in the DMZ if desired.
The VidyoGateway provides interoperability with H.323 and SIP based endpoints and MCUs. The VidyoGateway is implemented as an edge device of the Vidyo network so that the SVC enabled endpoints continue to benefit from the VidyoRouter architecture while the H.323 and SIP participants receive the transcoded video that they need. When deployed on the same LAN as the H.323/ SIP device, the VidyoGateway can be used to provide superior error resiliency not normally available to H.323/ SIP endpoints, thus eliminating the need for expensive QoS networks.
VidyoPortal is a web-based application that provides access, authentication and administration to users and administrators alike. Accessible via URL, the portal allows administrators to configure and enable user privileges and set policies across the organization. Users visit the portal to login to their account and initiate or join a conference in progress. The portal includes an intelligent directory and personal speed-dial capability. A plug-in for the Microsoft Office Communicator is available for Windows user that engages the video service directly from within the Microsoft Office Communicator contact list.
VidyoRoom is a portfolio of three codecs:- The HD-50/100 can encode and decode up to 720P at 30 frames per second. It supports dual monitors to display conference participants on one monitor and shared applications on the other, with a maximum bandwidth rated at 2 Mbps. The HD-100 has an HDMI input for the camera while the HD-50 enables USB cameras.
- The HD-220 encodes and decodes either 1080p at 30 frames per second or 720p at 60 frames per second. Dual monitors and a maximum bandwidth of 6 Mbps are supported.
VidyoDesktop is the Macintosh, Windows, or Linux client that is downloaded and installed automatically the first time a user attempts to login at the VidyoPortal, either as a registered user or as a guest. The VidyoDesktop turns off-the-shelf computers with webcams into personal telepresence endpoints capable of encoding 720p30 and decoding 1080p30.
Vidyo Technology
The cornerstone of the Vidyo portfolio is the VidyoRouter architecture, which leverages Scalable Video Coding (SVC) technology, and permeates both the company's products and its partners' services, forming the basis for its technology licenses.SVC was standardized in 2007 as Annex G of the H.264 video compression standard. It defines four optional modalities that seek to deliver the highest quality user experience in spite of packet loss and variable bit rates typical with modern IP networks. These four modalities are:
- Frame rate scalability enables complete pictures to be dropped from the bitstream, instead of random packets.
- Picture size scalability codes the presentation at multiple resolutions. Here the data of lower resolutions are used to predict data of higher resolutions, consuming less bit rate to deliver the higher resolutions.
- Quality scalability encodes a single spatial resolution at different qualities. The data of lower qualities can be used to predict data or samples of higher qualities in order to reduce the bit rate to code the higher qualities.
- Combination of the three modalities.
Vidyo achieves delivery of an HD quality experience with PC, room system and legacy equipment while avoiding the need for specialized QoS such as MPLS network services.
Vidyo-as-a-Service
Several service providers have implemented Vidyo-as-a-service where they use the VidyoRouter, VidyoPortal and other Vidyo products, enabling PC and room-based HD video conferencing in a secure and professional setting, without the administrative overhead of actually licensing, deploying and operating the VidyoConferencing infrastructure. These service providers focus on addressing the needs of business users in specific territories, select industries and small businesses all over the Internet, LTE, 3G or 4G networks.
VidyoHealth
The VidyoHealth product family was designed to provide a reliable, unified, high-definition, multi-platform video conferencing environment specifically geared toward facilitating real-time, face-to-face interaction between and among care providers and patients from anywhere, to anywhere, over low-cost general purpose IP networks, including the public Internet. Utilizing a variety of endpoints ranging from laptop computers to telepresence room systems and the patented VidyoRouter architecture, VidyoHealth is designed to scale from tens to hundreds of thousands of users. The system is designed to support both individual practitioners and service providers or telemedicine organizations, which provide services to hospitals, clinics and government healthcare and human development organizations.
VidyoCampus
The VidyoCampus program simplifies buying a VidyoConferencing system for large scale university deployments by offering a single site license that represents a bundle of VidyoRouter appliances, VidyoRouter multipoint conferencing VidyoLine software licenses, VidyoPortal seat software appliance and VidyoDesktop client downloads. VidyoCampus site licenses are priced to be affordable in any school's budget and are tiered by the total number of students enrolled in the university. If the system needs to be expanded beyond the VidyoCampus site license, additional components may be purchased as needed. You can also add room systems with VidyoRooms that are HD as well.
