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.

Capabilities

• 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

For Information about ViP for 3COM please contact VBrick at 1 (866) 827-4251