VBrick H.264 High Definition Appliance

H.264 Appliance

Product Overview

VBrick has established itself as the leader in the online video space. Over the course of the past 10 years of delivering the industry’s most robust, feature rich, and reliable products, we have a clear understanding of customers’ requirements. At the same time, we understand that many of the new functions required by customers, especially High Definition, require a fundamental new architecture. So VBrick has redesigned its core product set to provide this new capability, while keeping all of the great product qualities that have made it the clear market leader up to this point.

VBrick is pleased to announce its new appliance architecture, that will power all of the VBrick products in the future. The architecture is based on the microTCA standard, which allows us to create blades that can be placed in VBrick appliances, and also into High Density rack mount units. The initial appliances on this new architecture are based on H.264 video standard and support standard definition and high definition appliances. The new architecture and products provide the flexiblity allowing for easy customization across various industries and application solutions.

Applications

• Corporate Communications
  - Deliver “one message” to your entire organization
  - A variety of delivery mechanisms – broadcasts, digital signage, training, etc.
  - Television distribution over corporate networks
  - News gathering – high quality distribution of news over low bandwidth links
• Sales and Marketing
  - Quickly and effectively update, train, and launch products to your sales team,
  channel, and customers.
  - Increase time to revenue
• Human Resources
  - Keep new and current employees up to date easily and effectively
  - Reduce amount of time answering questions
  - Training
• Operations
  - View all of your facilities around the world in real time
  - Process monitoring
  - Surveillance
• Federal and Government
  - Military Training
  - Military Exercises

Features

• Standard
  - Resolution up to full D1
  - Sub-second delay (latency)
• High Definition
  - High Definition video delivery at bit rates over 1.5 Mb/sec
  - Resolutions up to 720p (initial release) and 1080p (future releases)
  - Sub-second delay (latency)
  - Component, HDMI, and HD-SDI video inputs
• Higher Density Platforms (shelf)
  - High Density Shelf offering allows multiple VBrick encoders or decoders to be delivered in one shelf offering

Benefits

• Standard
  - Better quality for a given bandwidth.
  - Significantly improved quality for sub-T-1 applications that also require low delay
  - Reliable, Flexible, Portable, Scalable, Manageable
• High Definition
  - Stunning quality for video applications displayed on large format screens (i.e. plasmas)
  - Detailed quality for those applications that require detailed imagery (i.e. military, healthcare, etc.)
  - Reliable, Flexible, Portable, Scalable, Manageable
• Higher Density Platforms (shelf)
  - Reduces cost per channel
  - Reduces rack space usage
  - Reduces power consumption
  - Ease of management
  - Increased reliability (dual power, dual NICs, etc.)
  - Multiple rack sizes can be offered to fit different applications
  - Reliable, Flexible, Portable, Scalable, Manageable