Vidyo

Technology should be invisible. People don’t think about jet propulsion when boarding a plane, or about torque when driving a car. So why worry about latency, error resiliency, and firewall traversal when holding a video conference? Video communication should be as simple, natural, and universal as sending an email. It should work with any device, on any available network, and be accessible to everyone at an affordable price.  And yet when Vidyo™ was founded in 2005, these common-sense concepts seemed quite radical. Vidyo’s CEO and co-founder, Ofer Shapiro, led the design team that built the first commercially successful video conferencing system. He understood that the adoption of video communication as a key business tool hinged on meeting a fundamental challenge: bringing price/performance in line with user expectations. To answer the challenge, a profoundly new architecture was required. An alternative to the pricey room systems that only connected to other room systems and required expensive dedicated networks; an antidote to the low quality, web-based systems that suffered from latency and jitter. To make it truly accessible to all, Vidyo’s platform needed to work over general-purpose networks like the Internet.