Today, VBrick announced the 9000 Series Encoding Appliance. With this announcement, VBrick again sets the performance bar for what a network video appliance should be. The 9000 delivers an encode budget of double the nearest competitive portable appliance. Two 1080p60 channels can be encoded and streamed simultaneously. Quad channel devices encode four channels of HD video at the same time. Blade deployments provide 44 channels of HD encode in a single chassis.
This isn’t the first time VBrick has set the encoding bar. For the past 14 years, VBrick has been defining the world of encoding and Enterprise IP Video.
We invented the network video appliance with the first MPEG 1 encoding and decoding device. At that time, few envisioned the explosive growth of video outside teleconferencing and the broadcast industry, or even what networks would be able to carry video. Our first device had ATM, Ethernet — even HDLC Synchronous Serial interfaces for T1 and E1 lines. Ethernet was of course a huge winner, and the age of enterprise video was born.
We followed with a rich string of network video technologies, each of which enhanced the value of video as an effective communications tool. MPEG 2 encoding and decoding appliances moved network video from VCR quality to DVD quality. VBrick’s MPEG 4 part 2 appliances led to the first glimpses of live video on the Internet. This was followed by the first complete video system with players, set-top boxes (STBs), video-on-demand servers and a viewing portal. The complete solution enabled organizations large and small to effectively deliver video to everyone.
VBrick then brought to market the industry’s first — and still the only — hardware-based Window Media encoder. It led to an explosion of video deployments in school systems, corporations and government agencies, spurring copycat encoders based on PCs with a capture card. Windows Media, with the rich ecosystem of video server and player software, made video commonplace and ushered in the modern era of enterprise video.
Fast forward to 2012 with the launch of the 9000 Series.
The chart below describes several 9000 Series “technology firsts” including two 1080p60 or four 1080p30 encodes, with baseline-, main- and high-profile quality.
The first release of appliances on the 9000 Series platform includes 1, 2, and 4 channel devices, with SD only versions in addition to the HD encoders. Appliances, as well as blades for VBrick’s Rack Mount Chassis are available. These are the first products in a new line of devices built on an entirely new architecture. Stay tuned for more exciting announcements.
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