Vidyo
company producing visual communication solutions
Vidyo, Inc., founded as Layered Media, provides software-based collaboration technology and product-based visual communication products. It is currently owned by Enghouse Systems. The company's VidyoConferencing products are the first in the videoconferencing industry to take advantage of the H.264 standard for video compression, Scalable Video Coding (SVC).
The firm's implementation of this technology enables video communication across general purpose IP networks.
History
Vidyo was founded by Ofer Shapiro, who had developed the first IP video conferencing bridge and programmable gatekeeper technology at Radvision. He left Radvision in early 2004 to develop improved video conferencing networks. Packet loss and latency that accompanies general purpose IP networks posed significant challenges to the existing systems. Costly dedicated networks and expensive Multipoint Control Units (MCU), which exacerbated delay due to transcoding or forced all endpoints to conform to the least common denominator endpoint quality, were the only products the industry had to offer at that time. He realized that to take advantage of state of the art H.264 compression technology, the fundamental technology behind video conferencing systems had to change. Shapiro's efforts resulted in a paradigm shift for the video conferencing industry - a new system architecture.
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