Archive for 2011

HACKENSACK, NJ – December 15, 2011 — Vidyo, Inc., today announced availability of VidyoMobile™ on the AndroidMarket. The VidyoMobile application now allows Vidyo’s enterprise customers to seamlessly offer mobile workers the ability to participate in company video conferences from select   Android mobile devices, expanding access to conferences that already connect iOS devices including iPads, iPhones, laptops, desktops, telepresence and HD room systems (including interoperability with Polycom, Cisco/Tandberg and other H.323 and SIP endpoints). To see VidyoMobile on a Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab, click here.

VidyoMobile for Android  is currently used around the world including in the US, Europe, Asia, South America, Australia and Canada, and can be downloaded today from the Android Market.  VidyoMobile runs on most ARMv7-based Android devices running v2.2 through v3.1 with support for v4.0 coming soon..VidyoMobile requires a user account on either an enterprise VidyoConferencing system or with a Vidyoserviceprovider. Service packages and pricing vary by provider and region. For more information,clickhere.

“With VidyoMobile now available on both Android and iOS devices, employees are able to join video conferences with other mobile endpoints, desktops, room systems or laptops from anywhere, at any time and from the tablets and smart phones they already love and own. Delivering up to 720p HD resolution with shared content viewing capability, VidyoMobile proves that you don’t have to restrict yourself to audio-only calls when you’re on the go anymore,” said Ofer Shapiro, CEO and co-founder of Vidyo. “Enabling businesses to be competitive in a world that is going more mobile every day is key in the video collaboration industry and Vidyo is proud to lead the enterprise mobile video conferencing space.”

AGartner study released this month found that sales of mobile devices grew 5.6% in the third quarter of 2011. It also found that smartphone sales increased by 42% and that Android OS doubled its market share in the past year, running 52% of the world’s smartphones, as Apple’s iOS takes up 15% of the market. Regarding tablets, according to research firmStrategyAnalytics, Android-powered tablets accounted for 27 percent of global sales last quarter and the iPad’s share is now at  67 percent, making VidyoMobile available to over 67% of all smartphones and to 94% of all tablets.

Like all Vidyo endpoints, VidyoMobile-enabled devices can participate in conferences with more than 100 participants – displaying up to 4 participants at a time on tablets – and provide the user the ability to customize the view and select shared presentation materials.  Additionally, participants are displayed using the active speaker feature, which automatically displays the current and last few speakers.

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, 3G 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 smartphones, 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 Blogor follow us on Google+ and @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
press@vidyo.com
+1 (301) 717-4224

HACKENSACK, NJ – December 15, 2011 — Vidyo, Inc., today announced availability of VidyoMobile™ on the AndroidMarket. The VidyoMobile application now allows Vidyo’s enterprise customers to seamlessly offer mobile workers the ability to participate in company video conferences from select   Android mobile devices, expanding access to conferences that already connect iOS devices including iPads, iPhones, laptops, desktops, telepresence and HD room systems (including interoperability with Polycom, Cisco/Tandberg and other H.323 and SIP endpoints). To see VidyoMobile on a Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab, click here.

VidyoMobile for Android  is currently used around the world including in the US, Europe, Asia, South America, Australia and Canada, and can be downloaded today from the Android Market.  VidyoMobile runs on most ARMv7-based Android devices running v2.2 through v3.1 with support for v4.0 coming soon..VidyoMobile requires a user account on either an enterprise VidyoConferencing system or with a Vidyoserviceprovider. Service packages and pricing vary by provider and region. For more information,click here.

“With VidyoMobile now available on both Android and iOS devices, employees are able to join video conferences with other mobile endpoints, desktops, room systems or laptops from anywhere, at any time and from the tablets and smart phones they already love and own. Delivering up to 720p HD resolution with shared content viewing capability, VidyoMobile proves that you don’t have to restrict yourself to audio-only calls when you’re on the go anymore,” said Ofer Shapiro, CEO and co-founder of Vidyo. “Enabling businesses to be competitive in a world that is going more mobile every day is key in the video collaboration industry and Vidyo is proud to lead the enterprise mobile video conferencing space.”

AGartner study released this month found that sales of mobile devices grew 5.6% in the third quarter of 2011. It also found that smartphone sales increased by 42% and that Android OS doubled its market share in the past year, running 52% of the world’s smartphones, as Apple’s iOS takes up 15% of the market. Regarding tablets, according to research firmStrategyAnalytics, Android-powered tablets accounted for 27 percent of global sales last quarter and the iPad’s share is now at  67 percent, making VidyoMobile available to over 67% of all smartphones and to 94% of all tablets.

Like all Vidyo endpoints, VidyoMobile-enabled devices can participate in conferences with more than 100 participants – displaying up to 4 participants at a time on tablets – and provide the user the ability to customize the view and select shared presentation materials.  Additionally, participants are displayed using the active speaker feature, which automatically displays the current and last few speakers.

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, 3G 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 smartphones, 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 Blogor follow us on Google+ and @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

“eRate” Discounts Available Now for Vidyo Products

Hackensack, NJ – November 16, 2011 – In an effort to provide classrooms and libraries with affordable, high-quality video conferencing, Vidyo, Inc., is currently working with U.S schools to help enhance students’ learning experiences by enabling virtual classes and field trips that supplement K-12 curriculum with real world interactions via low-cost, high-quality video conferencing. Virtual field trips give students access to people, places and experiences that were, up until now, out of the reach of public school budgets. To further this goal, Vidyo announced that select products within its Vidyo for Education™ product suite are now eligible for discounts through eRate, a federally funded program that is under the direction of the Federal Communication Commission.

At the San Carlos Charter Learning Center (SCCLC), one of the oldest charter schools in the United States, students were recently given the opportunity to experience a virtual science class on the human heart and circulatory system given by the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Twenty-two enthusiastic fifth and sixth graders watched and listened to an instructor who, via video conferencing on a desktop computer and iPads, shared a lesson about the circulatory system while dissecting a sheep’s heart.

According to Ben Sibrack, who teaches 5^th and 6^th grade science and language arts at SCCLC, “There’s so much potential with what we can do with HD, multiparty video conferencing over the Internet.  It gives us the opportunity to really break down barriers and change how we educate, in a way that was never thought possible a few years ago. With the kind of video conferencing that Vidyo delivers, we’re able to easily set up collaborative educational communities between schools within the Bay Area.  For that matter, we’ll now be able to set up collaborative communities across the U.S. and internationally as well.  These possibilities are amazing.”

“Video conferencing provides K-12 students and teachers an amazing opportunity – especially for those who don’t readily have access to experts in various fields, or the ability to physically travel to knowledge and cultural centers in their communities or beyond,” said Ashish Gupta, Vidyo’s CMO and SVP Corporate Development. “Students are now able to receive an enhanced learning experience and understanding of the possibilities that exist in the world around them. Up until recently, classroom access to information and expertise had been constrained by logistics and limited funding. We’re excited that, through programs like eRate, our already low-cost Vidyo solution is making it even easier and more affordable to expand the potential of what classrooms and libraries can offer.”

Select Vidyo infrastructure, endpoints and K-12 bundled solutions are eligible for eRate discounts and some products may require cost-allocation. To learn more about how to obtain eRate discounts and the complete list of eligible Vidyo products, visit our website.

Vidyo’s platform enables video conferencing over the Internet and lower-bandwidth public networks on desktops, laptops,  tablets,  smart phones or room systems so teachers, students and subject experts can participate in interactive video learning sessions from anywhere, including very remote locations.  With Vidyo for Education, teachers have the ability to share documents, video clips and other media, as well as add white-boarding functionality to their virtual classes. Vidyo delivers extremely affordable, telepresence-quality, multiparty video conferencing that takes the virtual classroom experience to a never-before achieved level.

Vidyo for Education

Vidyo for Education extends education beyond classroom walls to reach students, teachers, staff and remote subject experts, wherever in the world they are located. Using Vidyo, K-12 schools can easily participate in telepresence-quality, multipoint video conferencing sessions that run on off-the-shelf hardware over everyday networks, for a fraction of the cost of conventional video systems. Discounts on Vidyo for Education are now available through eRate.  To learn more about Vidyo’s Funding Information Services to help identify potential grants and funding sources and gain assistance through the application process, contact fis@vidyo.com.

eRate Discount Program

E-Rate is a funding program providing support to schools and libraries to obtain affordable internal connections, basic maintenance on internal connections, telecommunications services and internet access. The program is under the direction of the Federal Communication Commission, administered by the Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) of the Universal Service Administration Company (USAC).

The E-Rate program is made possible through a Universal Service Fee charged to companies that provide interstate and/or international telecommunications services. USAC provides approximately $2 billion annually to insure that our schools and libraries are connected and receiving educational services.

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, 3G 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 smartphones, 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 us on Google+ and @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:

Mari Mineta Clapp
press@vidyo.com
+1 (408) 398-6433