EtherneTV has revolutionized the capture, delivery, storage and management of video over local area networks and the Internet. EtherneTV is an enterprise-wide solution composed of a set of scalable, industrial strength, network-aware appliances that allows organizations to build a video infrastructure on top of any existing IP network.

EtherneTV supports the most widely deployed digital video formats, including MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and now Windows Media.  The EtherneTV architecture is unique in its ability to allow organizations to choose "the right technology for the right application" by drawing on the advantages of each technology.  At the same time, EtherneTV presents clean and simple interfaces to end users, making the system extremely easy to use.

The components of EtherneTV include:

• Encoding Appliances - Captures a video source, digitizes and compresses the video signal, and delivers it over an IP network
• Video on Demand Servers - Stores and sends previously recorded video over the network on demand
• Media Control Server Suite - Web-based management software to configure, schedule, secure, and control video assets and operations
• Decoding Appliances and Software - Decompresses the video signal for display on PCs, Macs, PDAs, and TVs

5-Nines Video
VBrick believes that mission critical video applications require the always-on high availability that you enjoy with your telephone services. The measurement standard of telephone quality of service is 5-Nines (99.999%) availability. VBrick has set the aggressive goal of being the first to deliver 5-Nines Video availability to our customers. VBrick's EtherneTV solution, featuring VBrick DNA (Dependable Network Availability) intelligent appliance software, is designed to meet the eight critical requirements for delivering 5-Nines Video experience:

• Ubiquitous access - VBrick encoder/decoder appliances support MPEG-1, 2, 4 and Windows Media standards for high and low bandwidth network connections
• Real time performance - Our appliances are designed with <200ms latency for full-motion, full-screen, DVD-quality video
• Reliability - Our appliances feature intelligent software for overcoming disruptive network events and delivering uninterrupted service
• Network Citizenship - Our appliances are network-aware, resulting in zero performance impact on other network-based applications
• Live and Stored - EtherneTV provides a simple, unified user environment to access, manage, and schedule live and stored video
• Operational Control - The Media Control Server Suite provides administrative tools to manage video operations and events
• Secured Access - The Media Control Server Suite protects live and stored video assets by managing access control and privileges
• User Simplicity - The Media Control Server Suite provides an intuitive interface that simplifies the search, scheduling, and viewing of live and stored video

By meeting each of these requirements, the EtherneTV solution is unique in its ability to deliver the most reliable, industrial strength, high performance, DVD-quality video across enterprise-wide networks in support of mission critical video applications - today!

Related Technologies

• Video Distribution & Management
• IPTV

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Case Studies:

• Design & Implementation of a Video Distribution Network, Air Force Reserve Command
• Video Over IP to Reduce Costs and Bandwidth- VBrick Deployment for Federal District Court of Arizona
• Network Video Solutions: ITCCB Certified News Delivery for US Embassy Personnel Worldwide
• VBrick IPTV Application: Delivering an 85% Reduction in Yearly Cable and Satellite Communications Spending at the National Guard Test Base
• VBrick Distance learning: Delivering Classes and Campus Events Live and On-Demand at the naval Postgraduate School

Solution Overviews:

• EtherneTV Video Suite: Digital Video Storage and Streaming
• Network Video Solutions: VBrick Solution Set Provides Custom Video Over IP Capabilities
• LTI DataComm Partner Overview: Riverbed and VBrick
  
  

Datasheets:
• Windows Media Appliance: High Quality Video over IP Networks
• VBrick Reliable Streaming: H.264 Surveillance Appliances
• VBrick VBExpress: Mobile Broadcasting through VBExpress
• MPEG-2 Encoder/Decoder: High Quality Video over IP Networks
• MPEG-4 Encoder/Decoder: High Quality Video over IP Networks

Practice Are Overview: Video over IP