IP Video Solutions

• Live. No one does live Enterprise IP Video better. Combine it with our on-demand capability for a killer IP Video solution.
• End-to-end. We offer the only complete Enterprise IP Video solution on the market.
• Reliability. You get industry-leading reliability, validated by over a decade of field performance data.
• Price performance. Save lots of money even when compared with lesser solutions.
• Ease of use. With over 60,000 installations, we’ve learned what our users want and need.
• Network citizenship. We know what it takes to transport video traffic without disrupting your other data.
• Standards-based. VBrick plays a leading role in IP Video standards bodies.

Creating Your Content
The core of an IP Video solution is encoding. Encoders come in all shapes and sizes and with varying degrees of reliability, functionality, and scalability. Some encoders are repurposed computers with capture cards while other are purpose-built network appliances that have built-in serving technology.

Managing and Securing Your Content
IP Video is a powerful communications tool, allowing you to communicate to anyone, anywhere. That doesn’t mean you want your message in the hands of everyone. Being able to manage and secure your IP video solution is crucial to creating an effective viewing experience while protecting your content from prying eyes.

It is important that your IP Video solution integrates into your existing user authentication infrastructure, allowing you the ability to easily assign permissions to users, groups, and entire sections of your organization.

Reaching Your Viewers
In geographically dispersed organizations, the network bandwidth between locations can be limited for deploying applications like voice and video. When determining if you need a centralized, distributed or hybrid IP video solution, it is important to know where your viewers are and implement a solution that can reach them. The key is finding a solution that doesn’t require you to invest in expensive network overhauls or bandwidth upgrades, and can help you distribute your video where it is needed – at the edge of the network.

You also want a solution that allows you to grow your system organically, as your organization grows. Telecommuting and distance learning have become realities in most organizations and your communication solutions should incorporate those users. Your IP Video solution should not constrain you to just your local area network. It should let you break past the boundaries of the network and let you reach anyone, anywhere.

Recording Your Content and Making it Available On-Demand
Delivering live video is just a part of the puzzle. You also need to consider a solution that provides the ability to record your content and make it available for viewing on-demand – no matter where your viewers are on the network. On-demand access to content allows you to reach viewers that might be working different shifts, in different time zones, or simply need to see it again. Recording and on-demand access also give you the ability to do a live broadcast once, but deliver your message or training over and over again, without having to do a live broadcast every time.

Ubiquitous Viewing
You need to be able to deliver content to users in a mixed environment. They might have PCs, Macs, or hand-held and mobile devices, and you might also want get your IP Video content into your classrooms and meeting rooms via projectors and displays. Your IP Video solution should allow you the flexibility to communicate in this diverse nvironment.

Does the encoder:

• come as a purpose-built appliance designed for video streaming or is it a repurposed PC?
• provide the flexibility you need to transmit live streaming video in a mixed network environment (multicast, unicast, HTTP tunneling, reflecting)?
• have the reliability you need to ensure that your mission critical application will not be interrupted?
• provide the video quality you need for your application?

Does the IP video management system:

• integrate into your existing IT infrastructure such as LDAP/Active Directory, allowing you to assign user and group permissions with ease?
• scale to the level that supports all of your users and future growth?
• provide the intelligence needed to redirect users to local content without burdening the network?
• support a wide range of IP video applications without having to have redundant systems to meet your IP video goals (e.g. IPTV, Rich Media Presentations, Store and Record…)

Does the IP video solution:

• allow you to reach all of your viewers regardless of where they are on the network?
• provide record and on-demand playback functionality available at the edge of the network where your viewers are?
• enable you to reach all of your users even on PCs, Macs, TVs, and mobile devices?
• let you schedule all of the core functionalities, providing “hands-off” use for your users (broadcasts, webinars, records)?
• integrate into your existing videoconferencing infrastructure extending its reach and value?