International videoconferencing technology company Vidyo, has brought its videoconferencing technology to the South African market, with an emphasis on the enterprise.
According to David Scutt, VP of Vidyo in the UK and Ireland, the adoption of video communication as a key business tool hinges on meeting a fundamental challenge: bringing price and performance in line with user expectations. To address this challenge, says Scutt, a profoundly new architecture was required.
The answer, he says, came with Vidyo's patented Adaptive Video Layering Architecture, which not only allows a company to adopt and deploy a video solution without a comprehensive network overhaul and upgrade, but also provides this freedom while ensuring high-quality, low-latency video performance.
The company has designed a software application, the VidyoRouter, to enhance real-time visual communication for the enterprise environment.
"Using our Adaptive Video Layering technology, the software performs transcoding-free lightweight packet switching, meaning there's no need for conversion of video file formats from the central point to the end-user's device. It optimises video streams to capabilities of each individual endpoint and network conditions," explains Scutt.
VidyoRouter, he adds, eliminates the need for central point unit (CPU)-intensive, high-latency transcoding infrastructure. "It's also designed to make it easy for the user to add new capabilities and capacity as their needs evolve," he states.
Scutt points out that users can add VidyoReplay, which records and streams both live and pre-recorded conferences, and VidyoGateway, where endpoints and multipoint control units are integrated with the videoconferencing system.
"We've seen how video enhances interactions across time-zones and distances, and its full value extends beyond the traditional performance/price model, clearly a new dynamic and scalable video conferencing models are needed for the expected growth of videoconferencing in today's Web-powered, mobile and on-demand world," he adds.
Scutt remarks that they see this technology as an alternative to the pricey room systems that only connected to other room systems and required expensive dedicated networks, as well as an antidote to the low-quality, Web-based systems that suffered from latency and jitter.
Says Scutt, today's borderless business environment demands that video serve as a business continuity tool where traditionally it was poorly understood and limited only to businesses' internal processes.
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