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"[Vidyo's] architecture lends itself extremely well to service providers that want to deliver video conferencing as a managed service. You'll find that service providers can leverage their infrastructure a whole lot cheaper than [with] the other platforms that are out there," says Irwin Lazar, a VP and service director at Nemertes Research.

Although Vidyo, with its H.264 SVC technology, has an edge over MCU-based systems, those bigger companies are catching on, says Lazar. Polycom recently announced support for H.264 SVC in the future and also has developed a protocol that it calls High Profile, which is designed to reduce bandwidth requirements for high definition. Meanwhile, Cisco has  announced that it would support SVC for its WebEx high-quality video service.

"You're seeing vendors move in that direction, and I think you'll see more of that over the next year," Lazar says. Vidyo will also have a hard time selling to enterprises that have already invested in immersive telepresence systems and aren't ready to give up on them.

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