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Windows Media® Streaming Over IP Networks
Delivering Windows Media® video and audio has never been easier. Whether it’s corporate training, a new product launch, or a dean’s speech at graduation, VBrick’s WM Appliance enables video delivery over your enterprise network or the Internet.

Capabilities
VBrick’s WM Appliance is based on the award winning VB6000 platform and provides multiple capabilities in one portable and reliable appliance.


Encoding
Digitizing and compressing a video signal for delivery over an IP network


Serving
Serve up to 200 live unicast streams or 20 on-demand streams - NEW


Multicasting
Multicast a live video directly from the appliance


Pushing
Push up to 25 simultaneous streams to VBricks or Windows Media® Servers - NEW


Reflecting
Receive a live stream over the network and deliver it locally via unicast or multicast - NEW


The Reflector functionality allows a WM Appliance to receive video over a low bandwidth link and retransmit onto a local area network. This important feature allows the VBrick to bridge low bandwidth bottlenecks by only delivering one video stream over the low bandwidth link and then delivering video to multiple end users at the far end. Other major new features include Multi Bit Rate (MBR) encoding, 16:9 support, and Closed Captioning support.


Recording
Record video that is being encoded or received over the network (requires optional hard drive)

Benefits
Integrates seamlessly into existing Windows Media® deployments


Combines multiple capabilities into a single appliance


Easy to configure and use – streaming in a matter of minutes


Streams to publishing points via push or pull


Portable solution is ideal for webcasting special events


Much lower delay (3-5 seconds) than with PC based systems


No desktop download necessary - streams directly to Windows Media® Player
Models


Windows Media®
9190-4200
Single channel WM Appliance (hard drive optional)


9190-4300
Dual channel WM Appliance (hard drive optional)

Windows Media®/MPEG-2
9180-4300
Dual channel Multi-Format Encoder
9180-6200
Dual Channel Transcoder (Windows Media Encoder/MPEG-2 Decoder)

Windows Media®/MPEG-4
9150-4300
Dual channel Multi-Format Encoder

Windows Media® Options
SDI inputs - NEW
Hard Drive

Compatibility


Windows Media® Player 10 on Windows® XP


Windows Media® Player 9 on Windows® 2000/XP and Mac OS X


Windows Media® Player 7.x on Windows® 98/2000

Interoperability


Media Control Server Suite — Portal, Scheduler, and network-based recording capabilities


VBrick VOD WM server — Windows Media® server for on-demand video


Microsoft Windows Media® Player and desktop media player


VBrick Audiomate microphone


WM Appliance WM Appliance Data Sheet
View the data sheet PDF to learn more about VBrick's Windows Media® Appliance.
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