As the battle for dominance in video-conferencing heats up this year, along with efforts to determine its place in modern Unified Communications (UC), companies are exploring several ways of implementation to provide consumers and enterprises with their best fit.

For Vidyo, Inc., the option being explored is to create a stack that covers on-premise, hosted and custom deployments all in one. Among the offerings from its set of cloud utilities are its Hosted VidyoConferencing tool, which is intended to address the Video Conferencing as a Service (VCaaS) block, and a Platform as a Service (PaaS) toolset, named simply as Vidyo PaaS, aimed at developers.

Part of Vidyo’s ability to support these services, which supports 4k UltraHD across multiple end-points, including mobile, is due to its “secret sauce” of patterns and algorithms to handle fluctuating bandwidth, as examined by theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Enterprise Connect 2016, in an interview with Vidyo’s President and CEO Eran Westman.

This bandwidth optimization, which Vidyo identifies as enabling up to a 96 percent load reduction on hybrid models, is also intended to support wide scalability while maintaining a seamless experience.

With Hosted VidyoConferencing, the company has set a number of goals for itself to satisfy customer needs. Among these are undisrupted deployment of Web-based real-time conferencing (WebRTC), smooth integration of cloud-bursting to meet sudden jumps in capacity needs, networking and adaptation to “any mobile or fixed network,” and encryption that meets HIPAA and other security standards.

For Vidyo PaaS, the aim is on providing a service that can be picked up, utilized and brought into existing frameworks with little hassle. To this end, the company has focused on creating an API that can be used on platforms from mobile to web to desktop, support for the same 4k UltraHD capabilities as Hosted VidyoConferencing, multi-OS interoperability, and equal WebRTC, security compliance and scalability functionality.

As these services are rolled out and adopted, the company is optimistic that consumers will find their needs met in new and stimulating ways. In an official statement, Westman said, “We are excited to offer customers more choice … We look forward to all the exciting new Vidyo-powered use cases our customers, partners and developers will bring to life with our PaaS.”

Image source: Vidyo.com