Cisco Leap Frogs H.264 Video Collaboration with Real-Time AV1 Codec

Today, at the Big Apple Video conference in New York, Cisco unveiled its real-time, high quality AV1 encoder optimized for video collaboration, that reduces bandwidth, enables next-generation content and avoids the patent issues that have plagued the deployment of HEVC aka H.265. During AV1 development, and as well as contributing coding technologies, Cisco worked hard with our AOM partners to make sure that AV1 supports the features needed for future collaboration applications, especially for low delay, real-time, and error resilience. AV1 is not merely an HEVC replacement, but also addresses a growing problem in collaboration: the demand for higher quality and new services is growing as never before, and greater and greater loads will be placed upon networks.

Source: blogs.cisco.com