Vidyo is among the first application providers to be certified on IBM?s new family of expert integrated systems.
Communications is a critical service that demands very high availability. In contrast to a telephony application, videoconferencing has not been expected to be reliably available at the same level. For videoconferencing to be viewed as a widely deployable communications service by IT, it must vastly improve to become a dependable utility. Large organizations and service providers have found that employing virtualization dramatically improves high availability by abstracting the application from the physical hardware, and enabling deployment on-demand to any available server. This may be the key for video communications when deployed in large scale to support personal devices.
Vidyo has moved rapidly to support deployment in virtualized environments. Near the end of 2011, Vidyo announced that it had virtualized the media plane for videoconferencing and Ofer Shapiro, Vidyo?s CEO, made the statement, ?Vidyo?s virtualization of the media plane is as significant to the video conferencing industry as VMware?s virtualization of the compute plane was to the data center.?
Just last month, Vidyo announced the VidyoRouter? Virtual Edition, and demonstrated this running on VMware at Enterprise Connect. Today, Vidyo is thrilled to make IBM?s list of business partners certified as ready for PureSystems.? With this certification, we are excited to change the enterprise IT experience as we know it and welcome our customers to the next era of videoconferencing reliability and scalability with availability of VidyoRouter VE this summer.
Vidyo is uniquely positioned to deliver video communications as a virtual application.? Vidyo?s endpoints and infrastructure components are software running on general purpose processors. But the key factor is that the multipoint requirement for rate and resolution matching is performed by merely making intelligent packet routing decisions upon encoded packets. This is a lightweight computational task compared with the resource intensive challenge of transcoding required by all of the legacy vendors to deliver equivalent functionality. With Vidyo, the media plane is easily virtualized, consumes resources efficiently and scales to support large numbers of simultaneous connections. Perhaps this is why IBM selected only Vidyo as a videoconferencing application partner to participate in the global rollout of IBM PureSystems.
Organizations need to be confident that video communications will be ?always available? if they make it core to their communications platform. Now with Vidyo?s leadership, organizations that want to deploy highly available videoconferencing multipoint infrastructure can do this as a virtual application, so the hardware variable is removed from the reliability equation. With Vidyo, everyone can meet face to face, remotely, with confidence.
To read the full IBM press release, click here!
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