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VBrick SystemsEtherneTV Overview VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
VBrick Overview • VBrick Systems enables organizations of any size to build a seamless architecture for the cost-effective delivery of video and multi-media assets over an existing IP-based network. Using robust and reliable components, users can simply "plug in" and broadcast or distribute rich media to and from anyone, anywhere on the network while managing the delivery of those assets through a rich set of administrative tools • Founded in 1998, Wallingford CT • 100+ Employees • ISO 9001 • Customers: Government, Corporations, Education VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
VBrick Overview • What Does VBrick Do? • “We provide a digital content distribution system called EtherneTV that delivers live and stored video (VOD) over data networks to PCs and TVs” • “We manufacture robust and reliable network appliances that create, store and deliver high quality video over IP” • “We provide to the user a single interface to control and view, live and stored video content, from any desktop or TV display” VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Content Chain Creation Delivery Consumption Encoding, creating, editing and producing information such as video, audio, text and images, one-way and two-way. Delivering live and stored rich media using the Internet Protocol Decoding and displaying content Security, Control and Management End to end content delivery, system control, and measurement VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Live Capture and Delivery Display Stored - Delivery • Video on Demand Servers • VOD NXG (MPEG-Linux) • VOD W (MPEG-Windows) • VOD WM (Windows Media) Camera, VCR, DVD or cable feed into Encoder • PC, Mac and Linux • MPEG 1 • MPEG 2 • MPEG 4 • Windows Media • STB Digital Receiver • MPEG 1 • MPEG 2 • MPEG 4 Management and Control • Media Control Server Suite • Portal Server • Scheduler • Network Video Recorder • Network Video Decoder • MPEG 2 • MPEG 4 • Network Video Encoder • MPEG 2 • MPEG 4 • Windows Media EtherneTV Solution Diagram VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Content Chain Appliance Your Network Player, STB Encoding, creating, editing and producing information such as video, audio, text and images, one-way and two-way. Delivering live and stored rich media using the Internet Protocol Decoding and displaying content VBrick EtherneTV Media Control Server End to end content delivery, system control, and measurement VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Request 1 Video Request Video 200 Unicast Streaming VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
1 Any number of receivers Multicast Streaming VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Hybrid Streaming Public Internet 1 Deliver video to any number of internal viewers and public Internet viewers without bandwidth worries! Any number of receivers VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Quality MPEG-1 0.1M 1M 3M 15M 6M Compression Standards Multi-vendor, Interoperable Standards at every level are important VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
MPEG-2 Quality MPEG-1 0.1M 1M 3M 15M 6M Compression Standards Multi-vendor, Interoperable Standards at every level are important VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
MPEG-2 Quality MPEG-1 MPEG-4 0.1M 1M 3M 15M 6M Compression Standards Multi-vendor, Interoperable Standards at every level are important VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
MPEG-2 Quality MPEG-1 MPEG-4 0.1M 1M 3M 15M 6M Compression Standards Windows Media Multi-vendor, Interoperable Standards at every level are important VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Home Page VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Live Page VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
View Info Popup – Live Video • Info Button: • Pressing the Info button Launches the Info Page • Info Button: • Custom Fields can now be added to the database and will display here with information • Links (Web Pages & Files) now appear on the View Info popup. • Click on link to open Web Page or File. • Web Page links are supported on the STB! (Files are not supported on the STB.) Web Page Uploaded File VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
External Player VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Video on Demand Page VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Enhanced Search Logic • Enhanced Search Logic: • All Custom Fields now appear in the search type dropdown. • Search strings are now parsed using a Google/Yahoo-style AND behavior. • For example, in the screen snapshot shown here, MCS will return all content that contains “Africa” in any field AND contains the literal “Green Frog” in any field. VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Calendar (Outlook-like) Interface: • The scheduling pages have calendar views. Users can view calendar entries for Month, Week, and Day • Currently scheduled events will display with the icon. Only resources to which the user has access to will display • Clicking on “Add” will take the user to the Schedule Wizard page (if they have Scheduling permission) Schedule Page VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Schedule Page VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Emergency Broadcast • Emergency Broadcast: • Emergency Broadcast templates can be created using the Scheduling web pages. • Once the Emergency Broadcast template is created, a user with Emergency Broadcast privilege simply needs to select “Start Emergency Broadcast” and it will immediately happen VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
VBPresenter VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Now you can place TV monitors, plasma displays, projectors, or other video displays anywhere and automatically show any live or stored video along with your customized text and graphics per your schedule! Digital Signage VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Digital Signage - Overview • VBrick Digital Signage is ideal for: • Corporate common areas • Visitor areas • Retail Stores • Banks • Healthcare • Transportation Centers • Anywhere people congregate VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Digital Signage - Components • The system uses only four basic elements: • A VBrick MPEG-2 Encoder with VBSTAR • Any number of VBrick Set Top Boxes • Ethernet/IP network (must support multicast) • A Windows PC with the Digital Signage Application for setup only (PC not required for operation) VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Digital Signage - Application The Digital Signage Generator program creates special display software "pages" for use with a VBrick VBSTAR and VBrick Set Top Box. VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
VBrick’s Digital Signage application is an easy to use WYSIWYG interface to create content in an open-systems (non-proprietary html) format. Each screen created can have text, graphics, and video elements. Each page can have time durations associated to it. This allows for multiple pages with multiple messages to be viewed in a consolidated manner. • Other valuable features include: • Each content section within a page can be custom sized and positioned • HTML pages can also support Flash and JavaScript file inclusions • Schedule video and content to multiple displays • Supports built-in video "playlist" capability • Scalable channel and viewer support (network bandwidth dependant) • Supports Emergency Broadcasting to monitors • Expansion to other valuable video needs beyond digital signage Digital Signage - Features VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Digital Signage - Centralized VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Digital Signage - Distributed VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Corporate Applications • Training - Live and On-Demand (Sales, HR, Management, safety, compliance/regulatory, new employees, ISO, etc) • Executive presentations/conferences • Collaboration (engineering, executives, etc) • Process and QA Monitoring • Cable distribution (news feeds to the desktop) • Video Conference extension • Employee/visitor communications • Security and Monitoring • Emergency Broadcasting VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Corporate Applications Banking/Brokerage Application - Real-Time Financial News Benefits - CNN, CNN-FN, Bloomberg can now be viewed on the desktop and TV's so different functional groups such as executives, brokerage dept., etc can monitor financial news real-time. This enables the bank to make real-time financial decisions for their customers. Insurance Application - Field Agent Communication and Training. Benefits - reduce time and error in new product introduction, comply and quantify the meeting of federal regulatory standards, reduce claim and policy administration errors by remote application training Application - Executive Presentations. Benefits -Reduce travel expenses and increase executive goals corporate wide, Application - Management Training. Benefits - Create a repeatable and consistent process in which to train sales management on-demand. Introduce new sales and sales effectiveness programs in a timely accurate manner VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Manufacturing Consumer Package Goods Application -Video Conf. and live media distribution Benefits - Real-time executive communications to corporate and field workers, reduce travel with two-way video, monitor news/financial stations real-time to make faster business decisions, etc. Applications - Route Sales training/communication of new product introduction, promotional selling, ordering, merchandising, collections, real-time field recalls, etc. Benefits - Take products to market faster, reduce order errors, reduce travel costs for training, ensure promotion compliance, visual plan-o-grams for shelves to ensure merchandising is correct, etc. Application - Category-Supply Management Training Benefits - Reduce supply chain errors, efficiently education chains on new product, etc. Application - Plant Safety Training Benefits - Reduce liability and injury rate, comply with OSHA/ISO standards, etc Application - Manufacturing line process and quality assurance monitoring Benefits - Reduce engineering exposures and production loss by monitoring new lines and remotely identify process improvement opportunities to increase production/revenue Corporate Applications VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Manufacturing Discreet Manufacturing Application - Remote Engineer Collaboration (two-way video) Benefits - Take new products to market faster, share best practices, reduce travel, reduce errors is product design, gain remote engineer expertise, etc. Application - Manufacturing line process and quality assurance monitoring Benefits - Reduce engineering exposures and production loss by monitoring new lines and remotely identify process improvement opportunities to increase production/revenue Application - Production Communications Benefits - Build team moral and competitive nature by posting production numbers and goals on the production lines, etc. Application - Corporate/Employee Communications Benefits - employee news real-time, provide corporate events and strategic messaging to the employees (billboard), present executive presentations real-time or on-demand. Application - Visitor Communications Benefits - Welcome visitors to build relationships, extend important company information to visitors, etc. (billboard) Corporate Applications VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Corporate Applications Retail Application - Event awareness via live video throughout store. Benefits - Increase in-store revenue by displaying sales on various products, increase consumer product and store knowledge, new service introductions (service desk, personal shoppers, etc), Generate additional revenue streams from manufacturers on in-store commercials, In-store special event announcements, etc Application - Design Collaboration (two-way video) Benefits - expedite collaborative process between retail center and manufacturer on product line changes (design, material, sizing, color, etc) VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Enterprise EtherneTV ExampleCorporate Address-Communications NY VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Other Examples VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Representative Customers Enterprise VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Education Applications • Distance learning (multi-point) • Cable distribution (CATV to the classroom/dorms) • Remote lectures, presentations, conferences • Faculty training • Broadcast sporting events and graduations • Digital signage • Point-to-point conferencing/debates • Distributed media library • Security, surveillance and monitoring • Emergency broadcasting • Virtual field trips VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Distance Learning ECMECC VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Distance Learning ECMECC VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Concord Elementary Normandale Elementary Edina High School Cornelia Elementary Countryside Elementary Multicast Video Live Streaming Video MPEG 2 Dual Channel Encoder MPEG 2 Single Channel Encoder Valley View Middle School PC/Mac PC’s PC’s PC’s PC’s PC’s PC’s PC’s PC’s MPEG 2 Dual Channel Encoder Creek Valley Elementary EtherneTV-MCS Media Control Server MPEG 2 Single Channel Encoder MPEG 2 Dual Channel Encoder Encoded Video EtherneTV-NXG Video-On-Demand Server Highlands Elementary South View Middle School Edina Public Schools Wide Area Network Education Scenario VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Education Scenario VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Representative Customers Education MIT VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Healthcare Applications • Surgical room distribution • Nurse/student training • Clinical assessments • Remote diagnosis • Distance learning • Cable distribution to beds • Bedside post-surgery/wellness VoD • Remote lectures, presentations, conferences VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Clinical Application VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Telemedicine VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Remote Diagnosis VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Representative Customers Healthcare VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential
Government/Municipal Applications • Security, surveillance and monitoring of roads, rail and public areas • Government TV – cable trunking • Emergency Operations video surveillance and distribution • Training (Police, Fire, First Responders) • Municipal TV (access to committee meetings, live events, etc) VBrick Systems, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential