Each year companies spend millions of dollars sending employees to other cities for meetings and training sessions. But businesses like rVibe, based in Bethlehem, are allowing those companies to save money by providing high-quality video conferencing so employees can spend less time collecting frequent-flyer miles.
rVibe provides live, high-definition Internet video that enables real-time video conferencing on a large scale. The company primarily serves the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, in which standard practice is to send hundreds of employees to training sessions that last for several days.
“You can save a boatload on travel,” says rVibe’s CEO, Braydon Johnson-McCormick. “And what I really mean is a freighter.”
rVibe has also developed the use of its video technology for use in television, more specifically enabling video to be transmitted to TV stations over the Internet instead of with huge satellite trucks. Johnson-McCormick says some broadcasters are testing rVibe’s system now.
The firm was recently awarded an investment of $100,000 from the Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania. That money will go toward rVibe’s plans to sell and market its product. Johnson-McCormick says he plans to hire two additional sales representatives as soon as the money arrives.
Source: Braydon Johnson-McCormick, rVibe
Writer: Rebecca VanderMeulen
