WALLINGFORD, CT., January 7, 2002 – VBrick Systems, Inc., a leader in low-cost DVD-quality video networking appliances, announced today that it received the Product of the Year 2001 award from Communications Solutions Magazine.  The editors of Communications Solutions selected the VBrick 6200 as the best network appliance based on its superior quality and functionality.

“We are pleased that the VBrick 6200 has been recognized by Communications Solution as one of the most interesting and innovative products of 2001,” said Rich Mavrogeanes, founder and president of VBrick Systems. “With the VBrick 6200, we set out to provide businesses, schools, hospitals and government agencies with an affordable, easy-to-use network device for distributing high-quality video and audio from one location to another.  This award validates our efforts to bring state of the art video networking appliances to our customers.”

For use in IP unicast or multicast environments, the VBrick 6200 is an MPEG-2 video network appliance used for streaming high-quality, full-motion video over IP networks. Applications include information distribution, training, distance learning, surveillance and process monitoring.

The VBrick 6200 encodes and decodes video/audio sources, has an Ethernet network interface and can simultaneously stream DVD-quality MPEG-2 video in real-time to any PC attached to the network. A simple IR remote control operates VBrick 6200. 

VBrick Systems offers a family of powerful yet affordable video networking products for use across a wide range of applications. In addition to MPEG video network appliances like the VBrick 6200, VBrick Systems also offers complete turnkey Streaming Distribution Systems, Video-On-Demand, and software applications like StreamPlayerII and StreamPump, as well as a wide range of accessories.