What is "vidyo"

Vidyo, Inc. is a privately held, venture-funded company that provides both software-based technology and product-based visual communication solutions. The company’s VidyoConferencing solutions are the first in the videoconferencing industry to take advantage of the H.264 standard for video compression, Scalable Video Coding (SVC).

Vidyo’s implementation of this technology enables high definition, low-latency, error resilient, multipoint video communication to both desktop and room system end points across general purpose IP networks.

Vidyo is well known for its implementation in Gmail's video and phone calls. Vidyo is being used for Hangouts feature.