We offer what is the easiest-to-use video on IP system on the planet, made by VBrick Systems. If you are investigating streaming video services for your organization to support employee communications, training, or emergency notification, we ought to talk.

It’s a system based on hardened, steel-encased network appliances that convert analog video to IP-formatted data packets on the fly and place them on your network. You can set up these video encoder appliances to do unicast (so you can send a point-to-point data stream to another appliance for videoconferencing) or multicast so you can broadcast video to multiple viewers. These appliances are used by the State Department to do videoconferencing worldwide between embassies, used by the Department of Defense for video control of their operations, used to bring back video from deep under the sea, and used by traffic control departments to broadcast video from roads and intersections. So you know that the appliances must be simple, rugged and reliable—and they are. Nothing at all to do with a PC, or with Windows software.

Most video viewing is done on personal computers. There’s NO modifications or additions needed to convert any existing PC to a video viewing station. No modifications to make Smart Boards, VGA projectors, or PC-attached display devices work, either.

The system includes those network appliances, a set of portal server software that makes finding and getting video simple for your end users, video servers that store video files (and you can tie your own home-built video servers into the system), and devices to deliver video to television sets and analog projectors. The great thing is that you don’t have to invest a lot of money to get into this video alternative—you can start with a single, sub-$5,000 hardware encoder and provide very effective video services. Then you can expand the system a piece of hardware at a time. You can even purchase a module that fits in a Hewlett-Packard switch to run the portal software on, which simplifies the installation even more. Click here for a description of the module.

It’s a simple system—web-managed, with a minimal number of components. Most starter video systems can be installed in a day or less.
We also offer a conferencing and collaboration service based on the Mitel voice over IP controller described elsewhere on this web site. If you need to establish a collaborative conferencing system that provides interactive document sharing, interactive distribution and markup of documents, and videoconferencing we’d like to show you how easy and inexpensive this can be.

Interested in any of this? Contact us here.