Why Vidyo?

Something had to be done. Web conferencing took off like gangbusters. Video conferencing? Not so much — in spite of the fact it’s been around much longer. And why is that? In brief, it’s because Web conferencing has been far more accommodating. In fact, it’s essentially available to anyone with an Internet connection — which is to say pretty much everyone. And Web conferencing provides for easy interaction between vastly different clients, as distinguished by compute power, available bandwidth and screen resolution. Web conferencing is indifferent to all these variations. So people are able to join conferences from wherever they happen to be on whatever system they happen to have.

Historically, however, this hasn’t been the case for video conferencing, which was designed originally around the embarrassingly dated notion that all conferences would have the benefit of special video conferencing facilities and dedicated high-bandwidth networks.

So why not just make video conferencing as accessible as Web conferencing? Good question. And, you know, it turns out that’s just exactly what Vidyo has done.