The importance of telepresence solutions has grown quite rapidly ever since the debut of the economic crisis, simply because these systems enable some serious cost cuts, at least as far as business trips are concerned. In fact, very good products of this type enables multiple users from all over the world to engage in direct, face to face conversation, and that's also the case with the solution offered by Vidyo.

VidyoConferencing (as the system in question is called) is able to deliver quite an impressive video fidelity at 2,560 x 1,440p resolution (77% more pixels than 1080p) via a standard Internet connection due to its unique patented architecture and VidyoRouter technology. Moreover, since VidyoTechnology uses Intel architecture-based platforms, it is able to take advantage of its fastest, intelligent multi-core technology, achieving milestones in videoconferencing price and performance.

The Vidyo architecture offers the only multipoint videoconferencing that does not transcode, yet delivers rate matching without adding latency. This capability is key to mixing devices and networks that can support 1440p with ones that do not. With VidyoTechnology, 1440p can be enjoyed on some devices (connected to 4Mbps devices), while other smaller devices connected to networks such as the public Internet, as well as 3G, 4G, WiMAX and LTE, can participate in the call, still maintaining a low latency personal telepresence experience.

"We are excited to demonstrate Vidyo at 1440p, an industry first,” said Ofer Shapiro, co-founder and CEO of Vidyo. “Delivering 1440p is yet another example of the unique advantage of Vidyo’s platform; because we are software-based, we are able to leverage the latest hardware platforms with the very best price-to-performance ratio that exists in the realm of videoconferencing and telepresence options."

VidyoConferencing will be available in July of this year; unfortunately, no price-related details have been provided (probably because the pricing of such a solution is so high that some consumers will feel a bit intimated by it).


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