VBrick Strategic Alliances

 

Strategic Alliances

At VBrick, we believe it is just as important to recognize good ideas as it is to invent them.  We are on a continuous search for technologies and services that enhance our ability to deliver comprehensive, turnkey IP Video solutions.  By forming alliances with best-of-breed vendors, VBrick makes it easy to tailor your IP Video application to exactly your requirements. We’ve done the hard work of integrating with multiple IP Video technologies – so you don’t have to.

 

IBM

VBrick is an IBM ISV Business Partner.  

VBrick's Plug-in for Sametime is the first product that streams live broadcasts and on-demand digital video content within the IBM Lotus Sametime environment.  The VBrick product expands Unified Communications for Lotus Sametime by providing users with a single point of access to digital video broadcast content and stored programming through a global organization.

Click here to find out more about the Lotus Sametime Plug-In


POLYCOM

VBrick is a Platinum ARENA partner.

VBrick partners with Polycom to deliver unified collaboration communications by extending the reach of UC with streaming video.  With VBrick's innovative reflector technology combined with Polycom's video conferencing solutions, customers can seamlessly and reliably stream video that originates from Polycom endpoints on a massive scale.  Streams can automatically register with both VBrick's Enterprise Media System platform and Internet service portal, VBoss.  VBrick centralizes the management of video conference streams and video assets.

Polycom & VBrick – Extending Videoconferencing
Polycom & VBrick – Scalable Interactive Broadcasts
Polycom & VBrick – Webcasting Polycom User's Group Case Study

3COM

VBrick is a Premium ON Partner.

VBrick and 3Com provide customers with digital video portal capabilities that provide central access to video podcasts, live content streams and on-demand digital libraries.  The VBrick Video Portal (ViP) enables 3Com users to create and watch video content quickly and easily without requiring additional multimedia infrastructure or management expertise.

Click here to find out more about the ViP modules


HP

VBrick is a ONE Alliance Partner.

VBrick's has partnered with HP ProCurve to port streaming technologies directly onto ProCurve Network solutions via its zl Services Module.  The module is transformed into a web-based video portal for accessing live streams and on-demand Windows Media video assets. The solution enables video over converged IP networks and is reliable for both event-based broadcasts and always-on applications.

Click here to find out more about the ViP modules


MICROSOFT

VBrick is a Silverlight and co-development partner.

VBrick incorporates the features and capabilities of Microsoft Silverlight into VBrick Rich Media Studio, VBrick Online Streaming Service (VBoss), and the VBrick Enterprise Media Management Portal.  VBrick is utilizing Silverlight 3 and IIS7 Smooth Streaming to deliver an HD-quality online video experience for customers.  The partnership with Microsoft provides VBrick and Microsoft customers with compelling, scalable video solutions.

CISCO

VBrick is a member of the Cisco AVVID (Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data) Partner
Program

Cisco’s Application and Content Networking System (ACNS) has been integrated with VBrick encoders, Video on Demand (VOD) servers, set top boxes, PC and MAC Clients and EtherneTV system.  The union of these industry leading products provides substantial benefits including unlimited geographic reach for video, reduced network circuit costs, higher video quality, and improved system resiliency.  In addition, VBrick MPEG4 and MPEG2 SSM appliances provide live, reliable video transport and system management for Cisco’s Streaming Security platform.

AKAMAI

VBrick is an Ecosystem (VAR) Partner.

VBrick has integrated Akamai’s video delivery platform with VBoss (VBrick Online Streaming Service) to provide organization and content owners a on-stop-shop to manage the entire video broadcasting process -- from live source capture, to final delivery to viewers in real-time.  The VBoss solution dramatically improves manual media management processes by providing a single online interface through which multiple content owners within an enterprise can easily upload, manage and organize digital assets in an automated way through customizable directories.