Yesterday, it was announced that Vidyo has received another round of funding, this time from Juniper Networks, bringing their total funding to $97M. From the article: “Vidyo makes video conferencing software that allows organizations to very efficiently and effectively make and receive video calls across any number of connected devices.…
Competition
Is Vidyo really the next big thing in video conferencing? It has been attracting attention for being the new Cisco and Polycom of the video conferencing world. This is because Vidyo dirt cheap compared with traditional videoconference leaders Cisco, Polycom, Avaya/Radvision (at about a third of the typical price tag). However, if you want to talk…
Image courtesy of 401kcalculator.org Video conferencing i s supposed to save you money, but this is only the case if you’re in it for the long haul. If you’ve ever looked into getting a traditional Cisco/Tandberg or Polycom system, you know how ugly the upfront cost for equipment and set up…
P.S. An inside source recently let the cat out of the bag that Avaya is not only on its way to a happy union with video conferencing provider Radvision, it apparently also has the hots for Persony, a virtual company that makes full-featured web and video conferencing software for private labeling. …
A NY Times article shook the video conferencing space when it reported that hackers were able to easily listen in on the board room discussions of major firms. The dark secret of the industry is that almost all existing video conferencing systems ( Cisco, Tandberg, Polycom, Vidyo, Blue Jeans, Radvision ) use the H.323 protocol which has many security flaws I had…
Brother Industries which is probably best known for being a printer solutions manufacturer completed its acquisition of Nefsis cloud-based video conferencing solutions late last week. Learn More About Nefsis and Brother Nefsis webconferencing review Bloomberg Nefsis snapshot Forecasts of Brother by 8 polled analysts say to hold Bloomberg Brother snapshot lists…
photo credit: bitjungle Blue Jeans Network is a hot video conferencing startup that has been gaining a lot of attention even since before the public release of its product earlier this year. They raised $23M from a set of A-list investors with its cloud-based solution that aims to bridge any…
Yesterday Heyward Drummond from Adobe Systems commented on the VSee blog: “Rest assured Adobe Connect which was just named by PC Magazine as the best Web Conference Solution for 2011 is not going away. Adobe is concentrating it’s sales and marketing efforts (sales force) on government and education markets. The U.S. Dept.…
Last Wednesday, Adobe blinked in its long standing Flash face-off with Apple when it announced that it was ending Flash development on mobile platforms in favor of HTML5. In the subsequent hullabaloo raised by defiant Flash developers and exuberant Apple and HTML5, a Reuters article reported that Adobe “plans to…
Convenience The beauty of Flash for video conferencing is that it’s nearly ubiquitous. Unless you happen to be working on student computer in a public school, Flash is probably already installed and running like a deer on your computer. In fact, if you can watch videos on YouTube, Reuters.com, or…
