Vidyo has been committed to the development of open standards since its inception in 2005. We have joined the ITU-T in 2006 as an Associate Member, and have participated in the development of both H.264 (AVC and SVC) and H.265 (HEVC) video coding standards. At the same time, we joined INCITS, the International Committee for Information Technology Standards, which is the central US forum for creating standards, and which designates the US delegation that represents the US in the Geneva-based International Standards Organization (ISO), including the well-known Motion Pictures Experts Group (MPEG). The ITU and MPEG have collaboratively developed both H.264 and H.265.  Our involvement in these efforts included the submission of technical proposals, donation of test video sequences, conformance bitstreams, as well as serving in editorial positions for various parts of these standards.

Vidyo has also been heavily involved in the IETF, which develops Internet-related standards including signaling, encryption, transport, etc. Vidyo’s personnel have co-authored numerous RFCs, and serve as co-chairs in relevant working groups. Vidyo has also been a member since 2010 of the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC), which develops interoperability specifications and runs its annual SuperOp! interoperability testing events (now in its 21st year).

Likewise, we have been involved in the WebRTC standardization effort, both at the IETF as well as the video codec level. Vidyo has improved VP9 by collaborating with Google to add scalability, an important feature for high-quality videoconferencing.

Our involvement in these efforts stems from our belief that standards and interoperability are crucial for improving the quality that users obtain collectively from our industry. By raising the quality, we help the industry grow; by fostering standardization and working on interoperability we make it easier to incorporate innovations across the board and deliver improved solutions to customers and users.

The Alliance for Open Media is a brand new organization in the area of standardization, founded by some of today’s leading companies in technology and content distribution (including Google), with a goal of developing next-generation royalty-free media codecs for a rapidly transforming industry. Vidyo’s innovative server architecture for large-scale, very high quality video communication, on virtually any network and device, is inherently codec-agnostic: the choice of codec, from an infrastructure point of view, is purely a business decision. We are very excited to join the Alliance for Open Media and contribute to the development of the AV1 codec, particularly for real-time videoconferencing uses.

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