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Ammex Deploys Vidyo Personal Telepresence Globally
HACKENSACK, NJ, Feb 26, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Vidyo(R), Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence,
today announced that Ammex Corporation., one of North America's
leading industrial and medical products suppliers, has selected
VidyoConferencing(TM) to connect its company's international offices
and departments that span multiple locations with HD multi-party
video communications. Founded in 1988, Ammex provides merchandise to
over 20,000 customers, including the U.S. Government and Fortune 500
companies.
Ammex, with offices in three countries that heavily interact with
each other on a daily basis, required a solid solution that would
work flawlessly between the company's different geographies and their
global customers. Their number one requirement was that they needed
to use the system via the Internet, but it needed to be a very high
quality, easily accessed experience for multiple conference
participants. Ammex evaluators had already tested, considered and
rejected other systems when they discovered Vidyo's "next generation"
videoconferencing solution, built on a completely new,
paradigm-shifting architecture.
"It was not economically feasible to invest in a solution with a
Multipoint Conferencing Unit (MCU) architecture given the ongoing
network and operation costs," said Chris Van Vladricken, Director of
Information Technology at Ammex Corp. "Vidyo, because it works
seamlessly over the Internet with amazing error resiliency and low
latency, was our clear choice. We're already seeing significant ROI
from reduced travel expenses. We needed a technology that our staff
could use with ease, without needing to rely on IT, and Vidyo allows
us to communicate face to face with any customer when needed. Also,
many systems tout their ability to integrate with other solutions,
but Vidyo was the only system that allowed us to include a customer
or company that doesn't have their own video conferencing solution in
an enterprise-quality experience. All a person needs is a PC or a Mac
with an Internet connection, webcam and USB headset, and we can send
them a link to participate in a video conference."
"Videoconferencing needs to meet a high quality threshold, and be
accessible to anyone, whenever they need it, wherever they are, just
like personal communication devices for voice," said Marty Hollander,
Senior VP Marketing at Vidyo. "Only Vidyo delivers those
capabilities. For companies such as Ammex, that must reach and
support their customers in remote locations, Vidyo provides an
unequalled personal telepresence experience, which means
award-winning video and audio quality on point-to-point and
multipoint conferences, whether you're using a desktop, a laptop or a
room system."
Vidyo's unique architecture, built from the ground up, is the first
in a new generation of software solutions that leverages the
H.264/Scalable Video Coding (SVC) video compression standard.
H.264/SVC enables a video stream to be broken into multiple
resolutions, quality levels and bit rates. Utilizing this capability
and Vidyo's intellectual property, VidyoTechnology(TM) offers
unprecedented error resiliency, eliminating the central component of
legacy video conferencing -- the Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) -- and
replacing it with a distributed architecture using an application
layer router. Because Vidyo's solution is based on software, it can
easily be expanded, upgraded, and customized for customers'
individual Enterprise and vertical market video conferencing needs.
Vidyo's product line spans a full range of potential applications,
from the VidyoDesktop(TM) with personal telepresence capabilities on
a PC or a Mac to the VidyoRoom(TM) that encodes and decodes
HD-quality video at up to 60 frames per second. Vidyo solutions can
be used by everyone in a company, whether from the office, home or
while traveling, via general IP networks, including the Internet.
About Ammex
Ammex Corporation operates as a supplier of industrial and medical
products in North America. It distributes metal cabinets, auto parts,
and ancillary products, as well as latex, vinyl, knit and leather,
poly, heavy-duty, nitrile, and food service gloves to various
businesses in the United States. The company also supplies toe
warmers; hand warmers; cleaning supplies; face masks; childcare
products; first aid kits; and protective coverings, such as lab coats
and bouffant coats. Ammex Corporation was founded in 1988 and is
based in Tukwila, Washington. Website www.ammex.com.
About Vidyo, Inc.
Vidyo, Inc. pioneered Personal Telepresence enabling natural,
multi-point videoconferences on desktop computers and room systems.
Vidyo's patented VidyoRouter architecture delivers the only available
H.264/Scalable Video Coding (SVC) solution that eliminates an MCU
while delivering the industry's best error resilience (click here to
see a video) and lowest latency videoconferencing solution over the
Internet and wireless networks. Vidyo is privately held and has
raised $45M from Menlo Ventures, Sevin-Rosen, Rho Ventures and Star
Ventures. Learn more at www.vidyo.com. Follow Vidyo on
Twitter@VidyoConf.
Contact:
Benita Kenn
press@vidyo.com
650-906-3638
SOURCE: Vidyo, Inc.
mailto:press@vidyo.com
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