Discover VBrick’s Highly Scalable Windows Media Encoding Appliance

 

Windows Media Encoder

VBrick’s Windows Media Encoder appliances are excellent for broadcasting video communications over LANs, WANs, and the Internet. Based on the award winning VB6000 platform, these Windows Media devices combine highly flexible encoding with all the tools you need to distribute IP video over any network.

A single VBrick Windows Media Encoder contains the complete functionality of a traditional multi-device Windows Media ecosystem including encoding, serving, reflecting, and recording. This makes the resulting solution far more cost effective and manageable. VBrick's Windows Media Encoding Appliance is a dedicated, purpose-built system, so your IT staff will have fewer headaches than with a PC-based system.

Serving – Serve up to 200 live unicast streams or 20 on-demand streams (with optional hard drive).

Multicasting – Multicast live video directly from the appliance without the need for an additional server and expensive operating system.

Pushing – Push up to 25 simultaneous streams to a VBrick Windows Media Reflecting appliances and Microsoft Windows Media Servers, letting you publish your content over non-multicast enabled networks and the internet.

Reflecting – Receive a live stream over the network and deliver it locally via unicast or multicast, giving you the flexibility to distribute IP video in complex network environments.

Recording – Record encoded video directly on the appliance or from video streams on the network (requires optional hard drive).


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ENCODER APPLIANCE KEY FEATURES

Integrates seamlessly into existing Windows Media deployments

Multi-bit rate encoding - each encoder can support the transmission of up to 3 different video and audio rates

Closed captioning information can be encoded with the video or users can insert captioning information in real time

Streams to publishing points via “push” or “pull”

Much lower delay than with PC-based systems

No desktop download necessary – streams directly to the Windows Media Player

Metadata support for synchronizing rich media

Fully integrated into our VEMS Media Management platform for live playback, record, and video on-demand

Fully integrated into our VBoss internet streaming platform
Windows Media Encoding Appliance Anatomy
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