VidyoRouter™: Designed for the Internet Age

Traditional video conferencing systems haven’t been able to take advantage of the obvious cost efficiencies available through Internet utilization largely because their highly centralized architectures are entirely at odds with the way the Internet works. Vidyo hasn’t repeated that mistake. Instead, all computationally intensive encoding occurs out at the endpoints — leaving only video routing to be accomplished within the network itself. And Vidyo’s intelligent VidyoRouter™ ensures that this packet-switching is handled with optimal efficiency — without either degrading the quality of the video or adding noticeably to latency. VidyoConferencing™ experiences are greatly improved as a consequence, with none of the choppy frames, long delays, broken pictures, and resolution compromises typically associated with traditional video conferencing. And all at a much lower cost.

Just as significant is the fact that Vidyo’s approach signifies the advent of reservation-less video conferencing. That is, participants now can join a conference without first making elaborate arrangements. What’s more, they can connect from wherever they are, using whatever equipment happens to be available to them—whether a room system or a desktop computer—over whatever line they might otherwise use to access email or surf the Web. The VidyoRouter™ automatically makes the necessary adjustments to accommodate the bandwidth, processing power and screen resolution available to each endpoint involved in a conference — without any effect on any other participant. Put another way, this means the intelligent VidyoRouter™ has been designed so that each participant in a conference is ensured of receiving the very best experience they’re capable of receiving. This is quite in contrast to traditional video conferencing systems, where one endpoint’s limitations ends up diminishing the quality of the video distributed out to all of the other endpoints.

Also, the VidyoRouter™ is intelligent enough to send along only as many packets as an endpoint is capable of handling, due either to limitations in bandwidth, processing power or screen resolution. This significantly improves network utilization efficiency. And because the amount of processing power and bandwidth available is dynamic, the VidyoRouter™ constantly tests and recalibrates what it should be passing along. And this, once again, ensures that each endpoint is provided with the highest quality video it’s capable of receiving — not just over the course of any given session, but also as local conditions change from one minute to the next.