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You?ve been the main person behind SVC right from the start. How do you now

see video conferencing taking shape around that specification.

I am very excited to see SVC now being realized in products that will change the way video

conferencing is done. In a way, the H.264/AVC story is repeating itself ? only much faster

this time around.

What I also find interesting is how the change of a single paradigm, which had to do with

replacing the transcoding MCU by combining SVC with a media-aware packet router, has

managed to turn the entire story of video conferencing around. The old, non-scalable, pain-

ful-to-use approach of using circuit-switching, dedicated lines, and transcoding MCUs will

now give way to video conferencing systems that operate like any other application on the

Internet ? highly scalable, easy-to-use, and designed with packet-switching, open Internet

standards and lightweight routers. The context for all this is that, with the dropping prices

of computers, cameras, and displays, the consumer and professional video conferencing

worlds are starting to merge. And Vidyo is right in the middle of all that.

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