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I received the following notification today from the Vidyo
company. It announces a new mobile App from Vidyo which allows video conferencing
between iPad2, iPhone, Android phones or tablets, Mac / Windows laptops, and/or
HD Polycom system.
There
will be a remote demo of the software in Rm 212 Erickson Hall on Thursday,
4/28/2011 at 10:00 AM
Laurence Bates
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Vidyo Extends Next Gen Video Conferencing Platform to
VidyoMobile Enables Users on
Hackensack, NJ – April 21, 2011 --
Vidyo®, Inc., today announced VidyoMobile™, a groundbreaking
solution enabling enterprise mobile users on iOS or Android-based smart phones
or tablets to join multipoint video conferences with desktops and HD room system
participants. VidyoMobile, honored as a “Best
of Interop Finalist 2011”, will be available in July 2011 for
enterprise users already using VidyoConferencing™. To see
VidyoMobile demonstrated, visit Interop in
Revolutionizing the Economics of Mobile
Video Conferencing for the
“By enabling devices
like smart phones and tablets to participate effectively in video conferences
with room systems and desktop users, VidyoMobile is a giant step in
making Vidyo’s vision of natural
communications universally available a reality,” said Ofer
Shapiro, CEO and co-founder of Vidyo. “VidyoMobile
delivers HD multipoint mobile video
conferencing to the enterprise, untethering users and turning popular tablets
and smart phones into high performance video communication endpoints with
quality available only on desktop computers to date.”
VidyoMobile is a quantum leap forward in mobile
communications because it enables the only natural experience by utilizing
Vidyo’s Adaptive Video Layering (AVL) architecture which dynamically
optimizes the video quality and resolution for each participant’s
environment. VidyoMobile users can participate in low latency,
high-definition, video conferences with decode up to 720p HD and encode up to
VGA resolution. Users can also collaborate and view shared applications using
their 3G/4G or WiFi wireless network, making themselves universally available,
all at affordable price points similar to making a phone call.
Vidyo was honored at CTIA for Mobile Leadership and
Innovation with the 2011
Mobility Trax Award for Enterprise Mobility / Mobile Video
Conferencing. Vidyo demonstrated the first
TV quality multipoint video conference on a smart phone during the keynote
address at CES 2010. Vidyo’s communication and collaboration
platform was licensed last year by Elisa
Corporation of
The Vidyo Difference
VidyoTechnology™ offers unprecedented error
resiliency, low latency and rate matching to enable natural, high quality video
to work over the Internet, LTE, 3G and 4G networks. Because Vidyo’s solution is
software-based, it can be easily expanded, upgraded, and customized for
individual
About Vidyo, Inc.
Vidyo, Inc. pioneered Personal Telepresence enabling
natural, HD multi-point videoconferences on desktop computers and room systems,
and VidyoCast, an affordable
cloud-based broadcast solution. Vidyo’s patented
VidyoRouter architecture eliminates an MCU while delivering the
industry’s best error resilience and lowest latency videoconferencing and
broadcast solutions over the Internet. Vidyo’s solution utilizes H.264 Scalable Video
Coding (SVC) and the company has been active in various standards bodies
driving H.264 SVC and SIP interoperability since 2005. Learn more at www.vidyo.com,
on the Blog or follow @vidyo on Twitter.
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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.