VIDEO CONFERENCE » VIDYO

VidyoOne delivers all of the hardware and software components required for desktop conferencing in a single 1U appliance at a single fixed price, making it easy and affordable for any organization to deploy their own VidyoConferencing solution.

VidyoOne intelligently routes video packets to endpoints where decoding takes place, delivering the highest quality video possible. Using Scalable Video Coding (SVC) technology, VidyoOne is able to provide each endpoint with rate matched video streams based upon that endpoint´s available bandwidth, processing power, and resolution capability. The result is robust, seamless, connectivity among conference participants with individualized screen layouts, over low–cost general purpose IP networks – including the Internet.

Just connect VidyoOne to your network and everyone in your organization can communicate more effectively from anywhere they have an Internet connection.

The VidyoPortal is a Web–based environment administrators can use to manage the VidyoConferencing™ system. And it´s so incredibly straightforward, in fact, that even ordinary conference participants can use it to initiate meetings – via the Web – from anywhere. VidyoPortal´s flexible interface features single–click–action buttons that take care of everything required to initiate a conference.

Also, regardless of whatever endpoint system you might happen to be using, VidyoPortal provides a consistent environment that´s compatible with Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.

For end users, the portal can be accessed through a range of endpoints that run VidyoDesktop™ or VidyoRoom™. For first–time users, there´s a simple sign–in or authentication procedure. Guest users can also be allowed access to the system, assuming organization policies permit that. All functions required to initiate or join a video conference are supported, including:

• Adding participants to a conference
• Defining calling features, such as speed–dial
• Searching or browsing for other users
• Setting personal account preferences

For administrators, the VidyoPortal serves as a central management environment offering abilities to:

• Set system–wide parameters and policies
• Establish end–user and association privileges
• Control and customize user conferencing capabilities

And for MS Office Communicator users, you can by–pass the portal and access the VidyoDesktop client directly from your MOC contact list using Vidyo´s MOC plug–in.

At the heart of the VidyoConferencing system is the VidyoRouter, a breakthrough in video conferencing technology that introduces the first major architectural change in decades. While traditional video conferencing systems haven't been able to take advantage of the obvious cost efficiencies available through Internet utilization, VidyoTechnology is designed for the internet from the ground up. Encoding and decoding occurs only at the endpoints – leaving just video routing to be accomplished within the network itself. Vidyo's intelligent VidyoRouter ensures that this packet–switching is handled with optimal efficiency – without either degrading the quality of the video or adding noticeable latency.

The VidyoRouter significantly improves network utilization efficiency by sending along only as many packets as an endpoint is capable of handling, due either to limitations in bandwidth, processing power or screen resolution. And because the amount of processing power and bandwidth available is dynamic, the VidyoRouter constantly tests and recalibrates what it should be passing along ensuring that each endpoint is provided with the highest quality video it´s capable of receiving – even as local conditions change from one minute to the next.

Each VidyoRouter supports up to 100 HD ports. Ports may move among a set of VidyoRouters and since they can all be managed by a single VidyoPortal, the cost of redundancy and geographical distribution is greatly reduced. Given that endpoints can produce a large number of resolutions, quality and frame rate combinations, the VidyoRouter ensures a video experience of continuous quality that is free of blurry images and broken pictures. The VidyoRouter doesn´t decode, but replaces the traditional ways to achieve rate matching. The VidyoRouter doesn´t decode and encode the video, yet it provides rate matching, error localization and supports composited layouts just like a traditional MCU.