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VBrick WM Appliance

Overview Brochure

Admin Manual

Summary

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