Archive for January, 2012

Vidyo, Alcatel-Lucent and ng Connect members featured in Connected Service Vehicle, Striker and TeleConsult service concepts, demonstrating power of videoconferencing

LAS VEGAS (CES 2012) — January 10, 2012 – Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, is teaming with Alcatel-Lucent and other ng Connect member companies to give 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) attendees a glimpse into videoconferencing- and broadband-enabled service concepts in the transportation, public safety and healthcare industries.

At the Alcatel-Lucent Booth #31412 South Upper Hall at CES, the following service concepts incorporating Vidyo® technology will be demonstrated:

• Connected Service Vehicle. Taking place inside a fully customized vehicle, broadband technologies, mobile devices, applications and Vidyo HD videoconferencing technology come together to create this concept.  The Connected Service Vehicle showcases how the cloud can streamline and reduce costs associated with remote mobile services. Capabilities include collection of traffic information, video logging and download, location-based services, Wi-Fi hotspot links and real-time, low-latency videoconferencing for applications such as enhancing the efficiency of fleet vehicles; increasing the speed, accuracy and security of first-responder services; reducing costs and time for service-provider installations and maintenance; and enriching the experience of community events and activities with broadband connectivity, videoconferencing-based services and advertising opportunities.
• Striker. Aimed at the public safety industry, the Striker concept illustrates practical real-life applications and tangible innovations to improve situational awareness of public safety officials to increase the safety of the public. Equipped with devices including radios, notebooks and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Striker presents a next-generation platform in a mobile environment, with a fully self-contained Band 14 public safety LTE 4G system, built-in Enhanced Packet Core (EPC) and mobile HD videoconferencing capabilities.
• TeleConsult. A healthcare service concept, TeleConsult is designed to make it easier for people to manage their health conditions where and when they want, without waiting in a medical specialist’s office, through high-quality videoconferencing. TeleConsult shows how a connected telemedicine platform – with wireless connectivity, cloud services, immersive telepresence with integrated voice and text communications, Bluetooth sensors (to provide accurate, instant readings of biometric information) and a medical gateway – can speed diagnoses, promote successful self-care programs, and save time and resources for both patients and medical professionals.

“Vidyo’s natural, high-quality videoconferencing technology is the ideal solution to improve a wide range of applications,” said Ofer Shapiro, CEO and co-founder of Vidyo. “These demonstrations highlight the ease with which Vidyo technology can integrate with a full range of end points, broadband technologies, and other hardware and software systems, so that live, immersive videoconferencing can become a useful part of everyday life and work.”

“Vidyo is an ideal fit for the ng Connect Program, where we show how high-bandwidth networks can transform specific industries to spur excitement about future possibilities,” said Jason Collins, Vice President of Emerging Technology and Innovation at Alcatel-Lucent. “The integration of live videoconferencing, by leveraging Vidyo’s ability to deliver a high quality, flexible video conferencing solution over a range of devices, helps the service concepts achieve an even greater impact and a more compelling value proposition.”

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™ technology, 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 technology eliminates the MCU and offers unprecedented error resiliency and low-latency rate matching, thus 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 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.

About The ng Connect Program

The ng Connect Program is dedicated to the creation of the new generation connected user experience.  With its dynamic multi-industry membership, and in cooperation with Alcatel-Lucent’s Gravity Center and Global Customer Innovation Program, the organization drives relevance and new business models through orchestrated innovation.  Founded by Alcatel-Lucent, ng Connect is comprised of more than 125 Contributing and Associate member companies including leading network, consumer electronics, application and content providers.  For a full list of members please visit: http://www.ngconnect.org/members/index.htm and for more information on the ng Connect Program, visit: www.ngconnect.org. Follow us on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/ngConnect.

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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

LAS VEGAS (CES 2012) — January 10, 2012 – Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, will demonstrate its award-winning multipoint video conferencing software on Amazon’s new Kindle Fire, tonight at CES ShowStoppers  in Las Vegas. The company will also showcase the latest platform support for its VidyoMobile™ HD video conferencing software client: Android 4.0 ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ running on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smart phone. The new Android mobile platform will be part of a live, multi-point, global video conference connecting an extensive variety of endpoints on iOS and Android mobile devices including Kindle Fire, plus desktops, laptops and room systems.

Vidyo’s CES ShowStoppers demos spotlight the flexibility and interoperability of its groundbreaking high definition, software-based video conferencing solution.  They will feature the VidyoMobile client running on a variety of the most popular iOS and Android tablets and smart phones, including the Kindle Fire, iPad2, iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy S II, in addition to the debut of Ice Cream Sandwich on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smart phone. All of these devices will be connected live with one another and VidyoRoom and VidyoDesktop systems located across the world, in a multipoint, HD video conference, over wireless and public Internet networks.

“Easy-to-use, universal business-to-business communication is the holy grail of enterprise video conferencing,” said Ofer Shapiro, CEO and co-founder of Vidyo. “Traditionally, the challenge has been interoperability among companies who use different video conferencing vendors and endpoint devices.  Vidyo’s software based approach offers a solution to this problem by providing high definition video conferencing over a multitude of off the shelf devices and interoperability with legacy systems.  No other vendor can demonstrate what we are showing today.”

The CES 2012 ShowStoppers event will take place from 6 pm to 10 pm on January 10 in the Lafite Ballroom of the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas.

VidyoMobile supporting Android versions 2.2 through 4.0 is available for Vidyo users with accounts on either an enterprise VidyoConferencing system or through an authorized Vidyo service provider, in the Android Market Place as a free app.

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™ technology, 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 technology eliminates the MCU and offers unprecedented error resiliency and low-latency rate matching, thus 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 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

+1 (301) 717-4224

PARIS – January 4, 2012 – Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, announced that DBee, a leading creative technology agency based in Paris, is using Vidyo communications and collaboration products to produce virtual meetings and large-scale digital events for its enterprise clients throughout Europe. The agency undertakes an average of 150 such events annually. Vidyo replaced the company’s previous solution for multiplex broadcast events, improving the quality with low-latency, HD video and audio, and saving the creative agency time and money.”

“Satellite connections were inconvenient, requiring advance reservations and lots of equipment to capture videos at multiple locations,” said Emmanuel Pain, DBee’s CEO. “Also, satellite transmissions introduce unacceptable delays – a second or two locally, and up to six seconds when crossing oceans. Using Vidyo technology over IP, we can have a Paris-to-New York HD transmission with only about 50 milliseconds of delay, which is imperceptible to viewers. Vidyo is simply the best-in-class in the industry today for HD quality of multiplex video services over IP. It makes it easy for us to build digital events, and for participants to interact more fluidly and naturally no matter what device they use to join the event.”

Vidyo technology provides DBee with advantages that include:

• High-quality video with no appreciable delay, even when transmissions extend halfway around the globe. Vidyo delivers its high quality on 720p signals and can transmit video with minimal latency even over lossy networks.
• More flexibility and creativity in building event content. For example, DBee can capture presenters on video in front of a green or blue background “screen”, then later crop the characters and place them into a different background setting. With satellite transmissions, blue or green artifacts often remained around the characters. Vidyo’s higher-quality, low-latency video technology enables DBee to place people into any background without artifacts.
• Exceptional performance and quality with different form factors. Remote participants in DBee-produced events can join from a variety of devices – including mobile phone, laptop, tablet or video projection system – and enjoy the same high-quality user experience.
• Simple installation and implementation. As a result, DBee can be more efficient. The company can use Vidyo to easily build a few-to-few multiplex or conference, then stream it to thousands of people, anywhere in the world.
• Measureable cost savings. DBee no longer needs trucks, very high-end and expensive broadcast camera crews in multiple locations or a lot of logistics support for its large-scale digital events. DBee’s CEO Emmanuel Pain estimates that a Vidyo IP multiplex event costs about one-fifth as much as a comparable event on a satellite multiplex.
• Expansion of business capabilities and options. DBee has been able to implement more services globally for its corporate clients who need this way of interacting and who appreciate new and better ways to implement virtual meetings.

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 Adaptive Video Layering™ 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 DBee

DBee is a leading creative technology agency with extensive expertise in the following areas: building online strategies for all electronic media and providing high-quality broadcast and webcast services. DBee’s rich media proficiency has earned DBee a loyal clientele of large corporations across Europe. Approximately 150 virtual meetings and digital events are produced each year with a worldwide reach mixing creative concepts and cutting-edge technologies. As a comprehensive operator working at the hard of the B2B sector and broadcasting industry, DBee is a full-service provider, including digital events set-up and project management. DBee maintains headquarters in Paris. More information is available at www.dbee.com.

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 @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
mari@vidyo.com
+1 (408) 398-6433