System
How Vidyo Interoperates
In keeping with an architectural philosophy which holds that each endpoint in the network ought to be supplied with the sort of signal that will let it present users with the optimum experience it’s capable of delivering, the VidyoGateway was designed as an intelligent edge device that seamlessly connects legacy endpoints with Vidyo’s own native SVC endpoints. Accordingly, those legacy endpoints which require a composite transcoded video stream are provided with exactly that. Vidyo’s native SVC endpoints, meanwhile, aren’t impacted in the least by any of this as the VidyoGateway looks like anyother SVC endpoint from the VidyoRouter’s perspective and supplies it with native SVC bit streams so that the all of the benefits of SVC are maintained within the Vidyo network, including industry-leading performance for network error resilience and low latency and per participant control over personal layout geometry.
As for the users of the VidyoConferencing system, differences in endpoint platforms are made completely transparent to them, such that placing a call to a legacy endpoint appears to be no different from placing a call to an SVC endpoint. For users, this is a huge win, while for the organization as a whole, the VidyoGateway provides an elegant means for protecting existing investments in legacy H.323 and SIP endpoints… at least until you’ve been spoiled by Vidyo’s quality and can no longer tolerate the underwhelming experience that legacy endpoints provide.
