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Jon is a Senior Product Manager for Vonage Video API, with over 20 years of communications technology experience as a patent-holding researcher and a product practitioner. A New Jersey native, his favorite part about building APIs is getting to collaborate with customers around the world who implement it to build their unique and creative video solutions.
Announcing VP9 SVC in Vonage Video API - Public Beta
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Update (August 2025): We are happy to announce the addition of VP9 with SVC (Scalable Video Coding) for Routed Sessions to the Vonage Video API, has been released as a Generally Available product! For more information, please see the General Availability announcement.
VP9 is an open-source video codec developed by Google and an evolution of the VP8 codec with greater compression efficiency, offering better video quality at lower bandwidths. This means VP9 can encode into higher quality video at similar bitrates as VP8 and is ultimately more suited for delivering higher quality video in bandwidth-constrained networks.
To learn more, head to our Vonage Video API documentation and check out the new VP9 SVC developer guide (in Vonage unified/ on TokBox). Our support team is also available to assist if you have any questions or need additional help.
Are you excited about the features? Do you think we left something out? Please join us on our Vonage Community Slack or send us a message on X, previously known as Twitter, and let us know how we can help.
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Jon is a Senior Product Manager for Vonage Video API, with over 20 years of communications technology experience as a patent-holding researcher and a product practitioner. A New Jersey native, his favorite part about building APIs is getting to collaborate with customers around the world who implement it to build their unique and creative video solutions.