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Vidyo Provides Attend Anywhere with Breakthrough
in Delivery of Desktop HD Video Conferencing for Remote Education,
Events & Services
Hackensack, NJ and Melbourne, VIC
May 13,
2008
Vidyo™, Inc., the first company to deliver personal
telepresence, and Attend Anywhere™, the Australian leader
in remote access to medical services, education and training, today
announced that they have signed a strategic partnership agreement
in which Vidyo will supply products and technology for Attend Anywhere
to extend services to customers worldwide via high definition video
conferencing on the desktop. Attend Anywhere™ facilitates
face-to-face participation in professional services, education,
and meetings either in-person or via video conference. Vidyo is
the first company to license technology and deliver products built
upon an entirely new video conferencing architecture that utilizes
the recently approved H.264/SVC video compression standard which
delivers unparalleled video quality over unreliable networks including
the Internet.
Attend Anywhere provides an online marketplace
where people can select education and professional services from
leading
providers
and then attend anywhere either in person or via video conference.
Many leading professional associations use Attend Anywhere to
promote and deliver professional education and conferences to their
geographically
dispersed membership. Users can also book medical, legal and financial
appointments online through the Attend Anywhere web portal. Using
Vidyo technology, participants will now also be to attend appointments
via high definition video conferencing on their desktop computer.
"Our partnership with Vidyo is an exciting
breakthrough that will enable Attend Anywhere to break free from
the cost and other
limitations of conventional video conferencing," said Chris
Ryan, CEO of Attend Anywhere. "By enabling reliable, high
definition desktop video conferencing over the Internet, Vidyo
enables us to
extend the reach of our education and service providers to a wider
audience at much higher quality and lower cost. Customers want
easy access to quality content and services, and improved ways
to bring
people together effectively without time-consuming and costly
travel. Vidyo enables us to deliver all of that and more."
Vidyo recently launched a family of groundbreaking
VidyoConferencing™ products
that deliver personal telepresence — the ability for anyone,
anywhere and at any time to communicate with HD video quality. Vidyo´s
system offers a new video conferencing architecture that increases
quality and reduces costs by utilizing scalable video coding and
a VidyoRouter™, eliminating the need for traditional multipoint
control units (MCU) and dedicated networks. This approach allows
the delivery of natural video communication at "TV quality" for
point-to-point and multipoint applications on generic IP networks.
"Consumers in rural and remote areas often struggle with access
to professional services like medical, legal and financial services
specialists," said Ofer Shapiro, CEO of Vidyo. "VidyoConferencing
will give Attend Anywhere the ability to offer customers the option
of participating in consultations via personal telepresence — high
definition video on their personal computers. This will dramatically
improve their access to vital services."
About Attend Anywhere
Attend Anywhere Pty Ltd, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia,
enables access to events, education and professional services
that people can attend anywhere in person or via high quality
video conferencing. The company has a rich history in dispersed
medical education and clinical service delivery and is a market
leader in telehealth. Over 25,000 hours of education and services
are exchanged annually using www.attendanywhere.com which allows
people to meet anywhere, educate anywhere or consult anywhere
at one or 100 locations. At www.attendanywhere.com people meet
or participate in services within professional networks and
are able to manage all their related requirements.
About Vidyo,
Inc
Vidyo, Inc., headquartered in Hackensack, NJ, is making personal
telepresence a reality. Comprised of some of the industry´s
best engineers, Vidyo has developed the first new video conferencing
architecture in decades. Vidyo enables people to communicate effectively
by using HD quality video from wherever they happen to be. VidyoConferencing
is easy and affordable to use by anyone whenever they want, and
deploys simply over any IP network. Leveraging Vidyo´s unique
intellectual property built upon the new H.264 Scalable Video
Coding (SVC) standard, Vidyo delivers the industry´s best
resilience and lowest latency video conferencing over converged
IP networks. Vidyo´s technology for OEMs and end–to–end
product solutions for organizations are able to support point–to–point
and multi–point connections that include a variety of different
platforms ranging from Mac & Windows desktops to dedicated
room solutions. Learn more at www.vidyo.com.
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