High Performance H.264 Encoding

Organizations can now stream video in a wide range of quality - from mobile to HD - over any network infrastructure and to any endpoint type. VBrick’s H.264 appliances continue the heritage of delivering superior customer experiences at any given bandwidth while also enabling ubiquitous video play-out to desktops, fixed screens, and mobile devices.

Capable of supporting both standard definition and high definition video delivery, the H.264 product family extends streaming video concurrently to endpoints connected by low bandwidth with modest screen resolution, as well as those capable of rendering 1080p high definition video.

Benefits

Maximum Quality – Appliances encode and stream 720p and 1080p video at 60 frames-per-second, the highest frame rate available from standard video sources. Video is compressed using the most advanced encoding standards in Baseline, Main, or High Profile H.264. This provides, for incredible video quality video at bandwidths of 1 Mb/sec and up (requires HD model). For lower bandwidth applications, video can be delivered in SD (Standard Definition).

Capture Multiple Video Sources on a Single Appliance – Dual-channel and Quad-channel models simultaneously encode and stream HD video from multiple sources in a single appliance, leading to economical deployments and space savings of up to 75%

Manage the Appliance Easily and Securely - Control and Monitor the appliance with VBrick's iPhone application. Integrate into any IT infrastructure with a rich set of management protocols and options that let you manage, configure and lock down the H.264 appliance. Use VBrick's VBAdmin tool to configure and monitor the appliance. Use command line interface over Telnet, SSH, or serial port to configure the appliance. Manage programmatically and integrate into other systems such as room.

Universal Viewing – VBrick's H.264 streaming video is supported by a number of players including Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime, Microsoft Windows Media Player (with VBrick plug-in), and embedded players for multiple browsers and operating systems

Reach Everyone – No matter how simple or complicated your IP network is VBrick can deliver streaming video to your users. VBrick H.264 Encoding Appliances provide an extremely flexible solution for delivering live video streams to many types of IP network configurations. Each appliance can deliver streaming video via multicast directly to the IP network, serve live unicast streams via RTSP for up to 200 clients, or push a unicast stream to 25 destinations.

Applications

Television Distribution -Deliver selected television channels, including news and financial programming, to an unlimited number of desktops and displays across your existing LAN, WAN or IP network. No need for extra cabling or a dedicated network. Reduce TV headend rack space by 75%.

Telemedicine - When video quality cannot be compromised, use the most advanced encoding standards, highest resolution, and highest framerate available to watch intricate operations and other medical procedures.

Digital Signage - Deploy signage economically by encoding the content once and distributing over your network to cost- effective set- top boxes. Feed an unlimited number of signs with four different HD sources using a single encoding appliance.

Surveillance and Monitoring - Monitor roadways, seaports, factory floors and security borders; survey battlefield situations with an unprecedented level of video quality ensuring access to detailed and accurate information.

Meeting and Event Broadcasting - When used with the VBrick Enterprise Media System the VBrick H.264 Encoding Appliance provides high quality video that can be delivered to anyone in your organization.

Extending Videoconferencing – Already have videoconferencing technology? VBrick's H.264 Encoding Appliance can leverage your investment by extending its reach. With VBrick, your videoconferencing suite, combined with our streaming technology, becomes a mini-broadcast studio, enabling you to reach a much greater audience then ever before.

Broadcasting Live to the Internet– Combine the flexibility and reliability of VBrick's H.264 Encoding Appliance with the reach of VBrick's Online Streaming Service (VBoss) and there is no where you message can't reach.