Getting to the Bottom of Higher Education with Internet2 and Vidyo

As VoIP services continue to gain popularity, video conferencing is becoming standard practice in businesses that require face to face collaboration. It’s the sort of service that has been an ideal ever since video chat became available over the Internet, and the opportunity for its application to education has always been obvious. Virtual classrooms, group projects attended from various locations on a campus, group research and administrative communications – the problem is always money. Schools often struggle to afford luxuries to which the private sector has convenient access.

Internet2, always immensely supportive of networking solutions in education, and Vidyo (News - Alert), a pioneer in video conferencing, have come to change things. The two will be bringing the latter's video conferencing services to universities and kindergarten to grade 12 classrooms all over America through NET (News - Alert)+. Over 220 universities already affiliated with Internet2 will be receiving this service that runs on a wide variety of platforms, making it accessible from machines as diverse as their users.

The video conferencing system, with availability for early adoption through Internet2’s NET+ services expected as early as May, 2013, is set to bring the academic environment back up to speed in the evolving landscape of communications technology. All of this is a part of Vidyo’s award-winning commitment to making video conferencing a universally used tool.

The demand has always been there in the schools, and according to Gordon Wishon, the chief information officer at Arizona State University, not only has the school been using Vidyo’s conferencing services with increasing popularity and success, but “[they]’ve pushed Vidyo to the edge many times and its performance has been outstanding under the most extreme circumstances”

Now that thousands of schools, students, businesses and educators affiliated with Internet2 will have access to the communications solution, it is expected that Vidyo’s popularity will only continue to grow as the users will have access to educational possibilities that are as reliable, versatile and affordable as they need.


Edited by Alisen Downey