SiteSetter: Vidyo offers free videoconferencing interconnection service

Vidyo has announced it will offer a free interconnectivity service to support multi-vendor, business-quality videoconferencing for multi-party or point-to-point meetings. The new service is called "VidyoWay" and it will connect room systems like those provided by?Cisco/Tandberg, Polycom and LifeSize to?Microsoft?Lync clients, mobile devices and telephones.

VidyoWay is designed as a B2B service for multi-party or point-to-point meetings, and it supports systems and devices that use H.323 or SIP (session initiation protocol). Acting as a cloud-based gateway, the VidyoWay service extends the reach of videoconferencing.

The service also features a "Click-to-Connect" capability, so colleagues or customers can join calls from legacy systems, UC devices or VidyoConferencing solutions without the need for more cumbersome set-ups that may have otherwise involved manual provisioning processes. For users who don't have access to their own business video communications solutions, VidyoWay provides a free mobile client for tablets and?smartphones.

Commenting in a statement, Brian Riggs, research director at Current Analysis, said, "Multivendor interoperability is a real pain point in the video conferencing industry. Interconnecting video conferencing systems that businesses have deployed is certainly possible, but is often both complicated and expensive. A service like VidyoWay should have considerable appeal among companies seeking a straightforward way to make video communication as commonplace as telephone calls, at no cost to the end user. Vidyo continues to dramatically change the economics of B2B video conferencing."

When we spoke to Vidyo about how it intends to will make a profit on a free service, we learned that the company expects VidyoWay to drive rapid market growth through a network effect created by increased usage that will complement and accelerate VidyoConferencing platform sales.

"Widespread video conferencing adoption has, to date, been inhibited by low-quality user experiences, high costs and manual connection process," said Ofer Shapiro, CEO and co-founder at Vidyo, in a statement. "The business process to achieve interconnectivity is very costly and cumbersome. VidyoWay provides true free connectivity to legacy systems through a free conference room in the sky."

networkworld.com

Source: http://www.sitesetter.info/2012/08/vidyo-offers-free-videoconferencing.html

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