VBPresenter

VBPresenter - > VBPresenter 3.0 Overview Video

PowerPoint® Add-In allows you to create and deliver fully synchronized slides, Q&A, audience polls, and web pages with the VBrick Windows Media® Appliance.

Using Microsoft Silverlight, VBPresenter provides a rich, interactive viewing experience that perfectly synchronizes your PowerPoint presentation with your live video for delivery to both Windows and Apple computers.

Applications

• Deliver live presentations, synchronized with multimedia content, to audiences world wide, compete with advanced features such as Q&A and polling
• Record the synchronized presentations and provide on demand access

Features

• Appears as a toolbar in PowerPoint®
• Multimedia control inside PowerPoint®
• Record & upload presentations for on-demand viewing
• Attach additional materials to the presentation
• Advanced viewer interface using Microsoft’s Silverlight™ technology

Benefits

• Robust - uses VBrick’s industry leading networked video appliances.
• Simple - requires virtually no training to use.
• Universal - Presentations may be viewed on both Windows and Apple computers via IE, Firefox, and Safari browsers.
• Single person operation - no need for a large production team
• No recurring costs - rides on your existing IP network
• Eliminates travel costs

StreamPlayer

StreamPlayer

Powerful and robust desktop player tightly integrated with VBrick’s appliances. Sub-second delay enhances viewing and recording of live content.

Applications

• Easy method to receive live video from VBrick appliances or stored video from Video on Demand servers
• Record live video from a VBrick appliance to your local hard drive

Features

• View live and on-demand local files
• Closed captioning support
• Record live streams (StreamPlayer Plus)
• Auto-discover live streaming feeds

Benefits

• Single Player — provides consistent user experience for live and on-demand streams
• Stunning Quality — MPEG-2 can be viewed at full screen in DVD quality
• Increase Video Reach — MPEG-4 and Windows Media support allows video to be sent over any network, including the Internet
• Live Stream Recording — StreamPlayer Plus is the only product on the market that can record live MPEG and Windows Media streams
• Ease of Deployment — automatic component download reduces installation time and effort; easily scripted for remote installation by SMS or other desktop management software
• Section 508 Compliance — closed captioning support complies with government regulations

OSN-ViP

OSN-ViP

VBrick delivers Enterprise IPTV solutions that scale with your needs. The ViP is VBrick Software designed for installation on the 3Com® Open Services Networking (3Com OSN) enabled routers and switches, transforming the module into a web-based video portal for accessing live streams and on-demand Windows Media® video assets. Tightly integrated with the OSN, the ViP enables automated discovery of live video from the VBrick WM Appliances and provides access to stored video assets onboard the OSN’s internal storage or via any web server or Windows Media streaming server. The user interface provides the ability to instantly play available media assets using any Windows® PC via an IE browser.

A less full featured version of the VBrick Portal Server, the OSN ViP sits at the heart of the video delivery system and provides support for all of the main applications that VBrick delivers.

Applications

• Corporate
  - Broadcast executive announcements and share them with your staff.
  - Teach new hires and help them learn faster and retain more.
  - Inform your entire staff of new initiatives and empower everyone in your enterprise.
  - Monitor production lines around the globe and react to changes in an instant.
  - Collaborate with disparate offices and participate from around the world.
• Government
  - Monitor your personnel in the field and react to events as they unfold.
  - Broadcast town meetings and share them with your constituents.
  - Teach new hires live or on-demand, helping them learn faster and retain more.
  - Inform your agency of new directives and empower your entire staff.
  - Collaborate on new initiatives and participate from around the world.
• Education
  - Teach students live or on-demand, helping them learn faster and retain more.
  - Inform your institution of new initiatives and empower your students, faculty, and staff.
  - Monitor world events live and react in the classroom.
  - Broadcast school events around the world and share them with alumni, parents, and students.
  - Collaborate with professors and participate in distance learning.

Features

• Integrates into 3Com switches and routers
• Provides live and on-demand video guide
• Displays video podcasts
• Live Video - the ViP automatically detects live video from any number of VBrick WM Appliances. The VBrick appliances may be on the same network as the ViP or they may be located anywhere in the world. The ViP will detect the live video and present it for immediate selection and viewing.
• Stored Video - the ViP will display a list of stored video. The stored video may be uploaded and delivered directly from the ViP’s internal hard disk via progressive download, or the video may come from virtually any web server or WM streaming server.
• Video Podcasting - the VIP will host and display a list of your video Podcasts. Podcasts are uploaded to the ViP via the “Podcast Transcoder” or using 3rd-party tools. A Podcast subscriber simply enters the provided URL in iTunes or similar viewer to subscribe to the video Podcasts you have created.
• Priority Alert - when there is a priority event or emergency, the ViP can be used to automatically open a selected live or stored video on everyone’s desktop (requires client applet).

Benefits

• User simplicity through an intuitive interface that enables access to all live and stored video assets
• No additional rack space required – fits into 3Com routers and switches
• Application flexibility; live video distribution, recording, and archiving of events, training and education, security monitoring, commercial television distribution, priority/emergency video notification, and other applications, all supportable from the same software solution
• Automated discovery and listing of live video sources