Press Releases

HACKENSACK, NJ – December 15, 2011 — Vidyo, Inc., today announced availability of VidyoMobile™ on the AndroidMarket. The VidyoMobile application now allows Vidyo’s enterprise customers to seamlessly offer mobile workers the ability to participate in  Read More

“eRate” Discounts Available Now for Vidyo Products Hackensack, NJ – November 16, 2011 – In an effort to provide classrooms and libraries with affordable, high-quality video conferencing, Vidyo, Inc., is currently  Read More

Vidyo®, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced it has virtualized the first video conferencing infrastructure and delivered an HD video conference on over 100 concurrent lines. To date, virtualization in the video conferencing market has been limited to call control. Vidyo has now virtualized media processing, enabling service providers to offer unlimited multipoint scalability and low latency rate matching capability on demand to accelerate the adoption of high quality, universal video conferencing on any endpoint.

HACKENSACK, NJ – October 17, 2011 — Vidyo, Inc., today announced the general availability of VidyoMobile™ for the iPhone 4S, and showed a video conference with four endpoints plus content  Read More

HACKENSACK, NJ – October 6, 2011 — Vidyo, Inc., today announced availability of VidyoMobile™ for iOS 4.x on iPads, iPhones and the iPod Touch on the Apple App Store. The VidyoMobile  Read More

Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced a $22.5 million Series D round of financing, bringing the total amount of capital raised by the company to $97 million since its founding in 2005. Existing investors, Menlo Ventures, Rho Ventures, Star Ventures and Four Rivers Group participated in the round, which was led by QuestMark Partners. Vidyo will use the funding to further expand its sales and marketing activities to address the global market demand for higher quality, more flexible and scalable mobile, desktop, room system and immersive telepresence systems.

Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, and Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced that Vidyo is the 2011 recipient of the Frost & Sullivan Global Product Differentiation Excellence Award in Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems. Based on the findings of Frost & Sullivan’s Best Practices research, the award spotlights the emergence of Vidyo as a key vendor in a market that is highly competitive and dominated by videoconferencing giants. Frost & Sullivan’s analysis indicates that Vidyo’s disruptive platform and APIs will expand the market.

Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced that Vedder Price, a law firm with headquarters in Chicago, has selected Vidyo’s communication and collaboration platform to “future-proof” video conferencing activities within the company. Vidyo was chosen to replace the firm’s legacy system which, according to the company, had become extremely limited in terms of flexibility and scalability. Vedder Price purchased and deployed the Vidyo system in October of 2010 after a thorough trial period in which they sampled Vidyo as a service to see if it would effectively satisfy the firm’s need to allow its lawyers and other staff to use the system for a variety of purposes between its three U.S. locations in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C..

Vidyo Ranks Expand as Company Addresses New Markets with Award Winning Next Generation Platform HACKENSACK, NJ-  August 4, 2011 –Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, announced today  Read More

Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced that one of the world’s largest telemedicine networks, the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN), will use the Vidyo platform to expand its current network and create a tele-home health network that will interoperate with its existing video conferencing network and extend the reach of its telehealth services into patient homes. Conveniently located in every hospital and hundreds of other health care locations across Ontario, more than 134,000 clinical consultations were conducted using telemedicine over the past year. OTN expects to roll out the Vidyo-based network to thousands more patients and providers throughout the province over the next three years.

Ricoh Company, Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, and Vidyo, Inc. today announced the Ricoh Unified Communication System P3000, the first Ricoh product resulting from a partnership with Vidyo as part of Ricoh’s launch into the unified communications market earlier this year. The P3000 delivers HD multipoint video conferencing, and enables users to share documents, photos and videos using a 3.5 lb portable room system that is built on Vidyo’s innovative platform .

Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced that Ashish Gupta, CMO and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, was nominated to join the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum’s (UCIF) Board of Directors. The UCIF’s vision is to enable interoperability of UC hardware and software across enterprises, service providers, and consumer clouds, as a means of protecting customer’s existing investments, simplifying their transition to more extended UC networks, and generating incremental business opportunity for all stakeholders in the ecosystem.

Red Herring has named Vidyo, Inc. to its Top 100 North America list, recognizing the company’s industry-leading innovation and market impact. Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube, and eBay would change the way we live and work.

“Choosing the companies with the strongest potential was by no means a small feat,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “We believe Vidyo embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture. Vidyo should be proud of its accomplishment, as the competition was very strong.”

Vidyo®, Inc. today announced VidyoPanorama, a groundbreaking personal telepresence solution that delivers the industry’s first affordable 1080p at 60 fps solution supporting up to 20 screens at 10% the cost of current telepresence solutions. Vidyo is the only company that delivers affordable immersive interactions across 1080p 60 fps multi-screen telepresence rooms, video conferencing rooms, desktops, iOS and Android-based smart phones and tablets, (including the iPhone, iPad 2, Xoom, Galaxy, Nexus S and others) enabling employees to use the devices they want to use.

Hackensack, NJ – May 18, 2011 – Vidyo®, Inc. has again raised the bar in video communications and collaboration, in this case with the focus on healthcare practitioners, patients and their families. Vidyo’s versatile telehealth solution is being embraced globally by leading medical establishments, and at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, Vidyo’s platform is allowing a team of “Virtual Care” specialists to employ more efficient and effective methods of video communication to support critical internal and community health programs. Vidyo for Healthcare allows Holy Cross–based physicians to easily connect with patients, caregivers and other providers beyond the limits of the hospital, including extended care facilities, nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities and even the homes of patients and their families. To see Vidyo for Healthcare in action at Holy Cross, click here.

HACKENSACK, NJ, May 12, 2011 – Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced that two of its internationally renowned technologists, co-founder and chief scientist, Dr. Alexandros Eleftheriadis and Dr. Stephan Wenger, CTO of VidyoCast , the company’s broadcast division, were among the four co-authors of the “RTP payload format for Scalable Video Coding” specification that was published as RFC 6190 on May 7, 2011. The standard was developed by a group of experts in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and defines how SVC is to be carried in the Internet over RTP (the real-time protocol used for video and voice). It will be used wherever SVC real time video is transported over IP-based networks, and is considered to be the most significant document for ensuring interoperability of scalable video transmission next to the coding specification defined in the H.264 standard.

INTEROP- LAS VEGAS – May 10, 2011 – Vidyo®, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced that it is the recipient of the Best of Interop Award in the Collaboration category, for delivering video communications and collaboration on mobile devices via its recently announced VidyoMobile product. Interop Las Vegas 2011 is taking place this week at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center and will conclude on Thursday, May 12.

Vidyo, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced a partnership with American Well™, whose Online Care Suite connects providers and patients for live, immediate, and clinically meaningful encounters using the Web or phone. By incorporating Vidyo’s award-winning communications and collaboration platform into the Online Care system, American Well will offer its customers a compelling new option to further enhance the highly personal, face-to-face interactions between providers and patients.

The Vidyo Platform Delivers Natural, Affordable, Interoperable HD Multi-Party Video Communications for Medical Exams and Consultations Hackensack, NJ – April 28, 2011 – Vidyo®, Inc., the first company to deliver  Read More

Hackensack, NJ – April 21, 2011 — Vidyo®, Inc., today announced  VidyoMobile™, a groundbreaking solution enabling enterprise mobile users on iOS or Android-based smart phones or tablets to join multipoint  Read More

Hackensack, NJ – April 20, 2011 – Vidyo®, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced that the Vatican City, the sovereign territory of the Holy See, has  Read More

Vidyo announced that BCS Global is using Vidyo’s next-generation video communication and collaboration platform to launch a new set of visual communication services that address mass deployments at the desktop.

Hackensack, NJ – March 29, 2010 – Vidyo®, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced that Chunghwa Telecom’s International Business Group, the primary telecommunications provider in Taiwan,  Read More

CTIA- LAS VEGAS – March 23, 2011 – Vidyo®, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced that it is the recipient of the MobileTrax Mobility Award for  Read More

ASU Undergraduates and Doctoral Students Communicate with Smithsonian Scientists in Panama and Washington, D.C. via VidyoConferencing Hackensack, NJ – March 21, 2011 – Vidyo, Inc. today announced that undergraduates and  Read More

Vidyo Demonstrates First 720p Multipoint Video Conference on a Mobile Device–on an iPad 2 Hackensack, NJ – March 15, 2011 — Vidyo®, Inc., today announced that its Vidyo platform now  Read More

The Revolutionary Vidyo Platform Delivers the Industry’s Lowest Latency and Highest Quality “Personal Telepresence” on the Desktop     HACKENSACK, NJ – March 3, 2011 – Vidyo®, Inc., the first  Read More

VidyoReplay Enables Large Numbers of Users to Record and Webcast from Vidyo Endpoints     Hackensack, NJ – February 28, 2011 – Vidyo®, Inc. today announced the availability of the  Read More

ENTERPRISE CONNECT, Orlando, FL- February 24, 2011 –Vidyo, Inc. will be prominently featured at multiple Enterprise Connect 2011 sites and events, from February 28-March 3, at the Gaylord Palms Resort  Read More

“VidyoRouter Cloud Edition” Reduces OpEx by 10X and Includes Free Firewall Traversal Hackensack, NJ – February 22, 2011 – Vidyo®, Inc. today introduced the next stage in the evolution of  Read More

As another example of the unmatched ability of the Vidyo™ platform to optimize rapidly changing bandwidth, the company will be featured in three demonstrations of HD video conferencing over wireless networks, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, from February 14- 17, 2011.

TOKYO AND HACKENSACK, NJ, February 7, 2011 – Ricoh Company, Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, and Vidyo® Inc., the first  Read More

Vidyo Platform and Fuze Box Collaborate to Bring High Quality, Multi-Party Mobile and Desktop Video Conferencing HACKENSACK, NJ AND SAN FRANCISCO, CA, February 4, 2011 –Vidyo® Inc., the first company  Read More

Sametime Integration Extends Support for Unified Communications with Seamless, Telepresence-Quality VidyoConferencing LOTUSPHERE, Orlando, FL, January 25, 2011 – Vidyo®, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced integration  Read More

HD Video Conferencing Bridges Work-Home Gap in the U.S. and Internationally, Offering the Highest Quality Video over Less-than-Perfect Bandwidth LAS VEGAS- CES- January 6, 2011 – Vidyo®, Inc., will demonstrate  Read More

New Concept in Retail Demonstrates Power of HD Video Conferencing CES, LAS VEGAS – JANUARY 6, 2011 – Vidyo®, Inc., will be featured at CES 2011 as part of the  Read More

Ashish Gupta Led Business Development and Strategy for Microsoft Office Division’s Unified Communications Group HACKENSACK, NJ- January 4, 2011 – Vidyo®, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, announced  Read More