Vidyo and Fuze Box Teaming to Develop Cross-Platform Presence Capabilities.

Vidyo, a provider of personal telepresence solutions and services, and Fuze Box, a platform provider of real time visual collaboration applications, announced a partnership under which Fuze Box is licensing Vidyo's next generation multi-party video conferencing technology.

Vidyo was demonstrated as the first TV quality multipoint conference on a smart phone at CES 2010. Since then, the Vidyo platform has expanded to support the iPad, iPhone 4, iPod, Samsung Galaxy Tab and Galaxy S smart phone, the Google Nexus S, and multiple other Android phones and tablets. The company's platform was also licensed last year for the first commercially available multipoint video conferencing service available on any telecom carrier network.

"Vidyo's disruptive technology has enabled Fuze Box to add telepresence-quality video conferencing to our visual collaboration solution," said Jeff Cavins, CEO of Fuze Box.

"Vidyo was designed to allow partners to build new solutions to deliver natural video communication on any device and Fuze Box has developed a game-changing, mobile product implementation of Vidyo's platform," said Ofer Shapiro, co-founder and CEO of Vidyo. "Vidyo's software-based architecture leverages off-the-shelf hardware and allows mobile devices, desktops and traditional room systems to interoperate together and with legacy-based systems. We look forward to Fuze Box's broad success in the coming months."

Vidyo was the first company to develop a new architecture based on H.264 SVC for video conferencing. The VidyoRouter architecture offers error resiliency and the lowest latency by eliminating the MCU, and is the first video multipoint solution that can deliver rate matching and continuous presence capabilities without an additional video encode and decode. This capability allows for less than half of the end-to-end latency of MCU-based solutions. Vidyo's technology is a key advancement in making natural video communication universally available over the Internet, 3G, 4G or Wi-Fi networks.

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