Video Case Studies - VBrick Solutions
Industry Case Studies
Real world applications bring the VBrick solution to life. Corporate, educational and government organizations all use VBrick to communicate using live and on-demand video, spanning a host of applications. Weekly company meetings that foster a close community culture, new teaching solutions that bring the power of video to each student’s desktop, public safety applications for local emergency staff and the military, and new media applications that reach around the globe, all showcase VBrick’s versatility and ease of use. Read the video case studies below to see just how VBrick's solutions worked for them.
CASE STUDY HIGHLIGHT
AVIA, Division of American Sporting Goods
Extending Video Conferencing Around the Globe
How to optimize the image and sound quality of a corporate video conferencing system and extend its accessibility to off-site participants.
While the original video conferencing system broadcast to only three offices at a time, the integration of VBrick's encoder enabled participants from multiple remote locations to view live or recorded video in high definition.
Whether you’re a Fortune® 500 or a startup, communicating with your employees, shareholders, customers and partners is critical to driving your business forward. From weekly executive meetings and collaborative projects, to announcements and channel news reports, live video brings people together like no other medium.
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PENN STATE MEDICAL CENTER Penn State seamlessly captures and streams live video of surgical procedures via Internet protocol, while recording them for future editing and access.
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AVIA, A DIVISION OF AMERICAN SPORTING GOODS VBrick technology both enhanced and extended the application of AVIA’s Tandberg video conferencing capability. The integration of VBrick’s encoder enabled participants from multiple remote locations to view live or recorded video in high definition. “With VBrick, I can immediately record, playback, and present any video on the web. I used to have to design my own website to do that…. It’s an amazing thing. David Hoffman |
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POLYCOM USERS GROUP "We were able to set up two different locations in a short amount of time, and on-time, because of how easy these systems are to use." Craig Ernst, |
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ALABAMA RIVER GROUP Some 50 televisions located in control and break rooms play an important role in maintaining the morale, focus and community culture for Alabama River Group’s 550 employees. Programming that includes local news and sporting events from a central satellite feed, to digital signage informing workers about upcoming company events and training videos on safety are all part of maintaining a team. With VBrick, crystal clear audio and video signals cross Alabama River Group’s multi-acre campus with zero impact on its fiber network’s regular data and phone traffic. “Employees at every location said the video and audio were instantly perfect.”Ron Oudenaarden |
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CARQUEST “As CARQUEST continues our rapid growth, communications with our employees and suppliers becomes ever more critical. At CARQUEST, we use VBricks to deliver weekly company-wide CARQUEST TV broadcasts to all employees at our 3,400 stores and 40 distribution centers. We also leverage the VBrick technology for internal training of our employees through CARQUEST University. We can record training sessions from our suppliers, which allows us to significantly reduce travel costs and view the sessions on demand so that we are properly positioning our suppliers’ products.” Ray Birden, VP of Marketing |
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QUALCOMM “VBrick technology is installed in the Qualcomm Auditorium where an average of two hour-long presentations a day are held. If Qualcomm employees can’t make it to the auditorium they can participate at their desk. Of course each session can be stored for on-demand access at a later time.”
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PUTNAM INVESTMENTS “For a company like Putnam Investments, getting information out with agility is very important. Putnam TV is a central part of our communication strategy: to handle training, investment information, to connect employees together and to still feel the emotion - the energy - that we want them to have. ” Mark McKenna |
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ALLIANZ LIFE “In an effort to promote a ‘One Company, One Vision’ message across multiple locations in a consistent manner, we deployed a VBrick video solution to deliver digital signage that profiles everything from new hires to emergency announcements enterprise-wide. Our long-term plans include delivering on-demand video training and broadcasting corporate announcements live to each and every campus. Our digital signage initiative has not only been effective, it’s reduced our in-house printing costs by 80%.” Matt Nowak |
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SHELL OIL “The VBrick solution has improved our business by allowing us to make better decisions regarding our well drilling operations. Allowing experts from around the world to see what is happening on the rigs in real time has improved our drilling success, which in today’s environment results in millions of dollars in incremental revenue. Additionally, the VBrick system allows us to avoid the costs associated with transporting experts to offshore rigs, which can run over $50,000 per helicopter trip.” |
The following case studies illustrate how VBrick offers more opportunities for learning than ever before. Live and on-demand video is used extensively throughout VBrick’s 1,000+ educational customers, from the principal’s office to the football field, for rich media presentations, classroom capture, extending video conferencing, cable TV distribution to the classroom, and more.
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PENN STATE MEDICAL CENTER Penn State seamlessly captures and streams live video of surgical procedures via Internet protocol, while recording them for future editing and access.
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OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY “One of the things I find exciting about VBrick is that we’re no longer time bound. Students can access classes at anytime, from anywhere. The fact that it’s on-demand makes the learning environment more flexible than ever before. I believe the time will come when students choose their classes, less by the time they're taught, and more by their teaching and learning environment. I want to change the paradigm of how higher education delivers instruction and I believe this is the technology to do it.” Dr. Marlene Strathe, Sr. Vice President and Provost |
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GLENDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE "The technology can grow or shrink based on your needs. Once you've established the main portal and on-demand servers, you can scale the system by adding more 'Bricks. You don't need to recreate a portal, or add new formatting or build infrastructure. It's a very simple step to grow." Scott Kozakiewicz |
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GRANDVIEW ISD “I’ve got everything to run the VBrick system set up here in my office. I can distribute everything and anything the faculty may want from K-12 from here.” Doug Allen, Technology Director |
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METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT OF WARREN TOWNSHIP, INDIANAPOLIS, IN “Technology’s prominent role in today’s economy makes it essential that we provide students with the resources required to succeed in the digital environment. VBrick is providing the flexibility and ease-of-use that enables teachers and students to focus on education, without worrying about the underlying technology.” Brian Woods, Director of Network Operations |
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GENEVA AREA CITY SCHOOLS, GENEVA, OH “We chose VBrick because it provides the most efficient and economical way to bring cable television into the schools. Its flexibility to support additional applications is nice, but its value as a cable television distribution system is the key short term driver.” Scott Huggins, Director of Technology |
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UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT “We are happy to provide the unique opportunity for UCONN alumni and fans all over the world to watch the Huskies. We thank our good friends at VBrick Systems for helping us provide the game to UCONN fans worldwide.” Jeffrey A. Hathaway |
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BRYANT UNIVERSITY Bryant University initially purchased VBrick’s EtherneTV system as a vehicle for providing access to the school’s newly stocked video library; it has also become a vehicle for broadcasting video of live events as well as distributing four cable channels via the IP network. The live event broadcasts have included football games and commencement ceremonies. “Everyone across the board has been happy with the systemand the easy access.” Daniel Greene |
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RARITAN VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE Students and professors in the speech communications program video record their speeches which are immediately uploaded to the network via the VBrick appliance and stored for on-demand access by students and professors. Videos are also turned into podcasts allowing students and professors to access the content from almost anywhere. Using VBrick’s technology to record my class lectures and review student speeches has been incredibly easy.” Mike Machnik |
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MURRIETA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, CA VBrick enabled Murrieta to make streaming and on-demand video accessible from any desktop in Murrieta’s network, and enable every classroom to stream video simultaneously without overloading the network. Since Murrieta has the HP ProCurve network, installing VBrick encoders was a simple plug-and-play installation. Over 21,000 students across Murrieta Valley Unified School District viewed the live multicast streaming of President Obama taking the oath of office via a VBrick encoder and C-Span.” Ken Balliger |
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SALEM HIGH SCHOOL, SALEM, NH Broadcasting over the Internet was an attractive alternative to broadcasting the games live over the school’s local cable access station. It freed up the television channel for other programs, and provided live coverage to anyone with access to an Internet connection. Using a VBrick single-channel Windows Media encoder was the solution to broadcast live digital video over the Internet from virtually any camera signal. “Once we saw it could do sports, we realized we could broadcast other things as well. Broadcasts of graduation ceremonies and town meetings soon followed. VBrick’s technology was used repeatedly as the school became a regular stop for primary and presidential campaigns.” Tom Giarrosso |
With thousands of federal and local agency customers, VBrick has been chosen by many US government agencies as the standard for video streaming in their enterprise. The following industry case studies illustrate how our mission-critical “in theater” or “first responder” applications support men and women at the front lines, and support operations communications.
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION The Federal Trade Commission has a robust internal network of video, from training videos to closed or semi-closed hearings, to system-wide broadcasting. For those tactical videos, the FTC uses the VBrick Enterprise Media System. |
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NATIONAL GUARD BUREAU The National Guard Bureau installed an integrated network of VBrick video appliances to provide efficient video distribution for cable and satellite communications. By significantly reducing the number of cable drops the return on investment was less than 6 months. |
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FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT OF ARIZONA The Federal Judicial Television Network (FJTN) broadcasts 118 recorded programs and 36 live programs to over 300 sites nationwide. For a more efficient way to distribute and record FJTN programming and deliver live television to personnel, the Federal District Court of Arizona installed a VBrick EtherneTV portal system for live and on-demand television and other programs. |
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AIR FORCE RESERVE COMMAND With 12 base operations, the Air Force Reserve Command used VBrick to save more than a half million dollars a year in cable access charges and ensured the user community would have access to Video-on-Demand programs, commander broadcasts, as well as local channels and news. |
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WASHOE REGIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING CENTER “When you’re on the front lines of public safety, rapid response and flawless execution are essential to mitigating hazardous situations. Ongoing professional training is critical to preparing first responders for a myriad of potentially dangerous situations. Digital video provides public safety employees with high-quality training from subject-matter experts that are available anytime, which is especially important for staff working a variety of shifts. Ease of use and ‘anytime’ video access are important tools for enhancing training and retention of potentially life-saving skills.” Greg Befort |
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UTAH DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION “Whenever a report comes in about debris in the road or a crash, we use our cameras to confirm the incident, verify the location, and route emergency vehicles to the scene. The Traffic Operations Center uses information from these sources [cameras], as well as incident data from emergency dispatch centers, to assist in responding to emergencies and managing everyday traffic flow.” Richard Manser
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CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, NC “VBrick was part of a project to provide the citizens with another way of accessing our city resources: city council meetings, council workshops, educational resources, announcements. VBrick has made that information tremendously easy to distribute.” Charles Stallings |
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NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL, MONTEREY, CA The school’s streaming solution is centered around VBrick portal servers where the tools are located that manage the video files and schedule the video streams. The portal servers are fed by dual encoder VBrick appliances located in the school’s classroom and mobile appliances which are moved about campus to capture video of special events such as graduation and guest speakers. VBrick has allowed increased flexibility of who can be accepted into the program. It takes away the barrier of a physical location so the school can now select the best and most qualified students regardless of the location of their current duty station. They are no longer limited to just major military bases, but can go globally to reach the gas station in Maine, the aircraft carrier at sea, or the student in Afghanistan. |
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BEAUFORT COUNTY, SC Sixty-four cameras line Beaufort County’s highway system, all integrated into a network that encompasses 75 – 80 percent of the county’s government buildings, including several operations centers and military installations. VBrick’s reliability and multicasting capabilities are key to providing government staff and agency with access to video cameras at the same time. “Where the deputy could only see 100 yards down the road, we could access camera’s everywhere and radio him instructions on how to proceed.”William Winn |
The power of video has been embraced by organizations wishing to distribute and promote their live events to new audiences over the Internet. The following case studies show that by employing VBrick Online Streaming Services (VBoss), organizations can stream live events and create additional opportunities for branding and monetizing the events for a complete online video business model.
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QSTREAM Qstream set up a live, streaming Internet event of a European kickboxing extravaganza that reached 20,000 paying subscribers around the globe. Using a VBrick Encoder with an integrated hard drive, and a VBOSS web portal subscription and software bundle, the system was set up within hours and easily scaled to the number of viewers. |
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THE CHURCH ONLINE Through VBrick’s affordable, versatile streaming video technology and hands-on service, The Church Online developed a package designed to enable even small, 250-member churches to create an online video presence through live streaming or on-demand content. Once participating churches receive their compact VBrick appliance and plug it into a broadband jack at the church, technicians at The Church Online can configure the church’s account remotely. “If a minister knows how to set up a VCR and has access to fiber, cable or a T1 line, they can configure this device and be streaming within an hour.”Melissa Wharton, President and CEO |
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COMMSFIRST A mobile communications center that provides on-scene video communications between first responders and command centers, independently of local infrastructure. |
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AMERICA'S EMERGENCY NETWORK America’s Emergency Network (AEN) has deployed VBrick to power its satellite-based emergency video distribution system. AEN’s system is designed to continue working after a disaster to keep government agencies and residents informed even when all land-based power and communication lines have been knocked out. Working with VBrick, AEN has syndicated live hurricane video feeds to hundreds of newspaper and radio web sites and government agencies across the U.S. |
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CULTIVA ENTERTAINMENT eBeisbol.com™, the official site of the SERIE DEL CARIBE (the tournament determining the champion country of Winter League baseball), partnered with VBrick Systems to launch Beisbol.TV to stream the games and highlights. For the first time, eBeisbol.com offered a Beisbol.TV Highlight and Linescore widget for syndication. The widget was updated dynamically during the game. Participating countries included Mexico, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. |
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CBS NEWS CBS News used VBrick to broadcast live from the Bahamas for their morning news program, The Early Show, during the Anna Nicole Smith tragedy. With the reporter in the field, a camera man and an audio technician, they simply boarded a plane with the VBExpress case. As soon as they arrived, they set up the camera and microphone, powered up the VBExpress, and began broadcasting live to New York. |
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