Vbrick: A Foundation for Your Video Ecosystem

Vbrick Systems is a relatively "old player" in the online video scene, providing technology to websites for video hosting. It's about to launch new hardware and software for streaming and pay-per-view video.




It also hopes to bring in more money by embedding advertisements in some of the videos it serves, on top of the $30 million in revenue last year and reports that 2008 will be even more profitable. They've been helped along the way by a partnership with Akamai Technologies, a company that will improve its network resources, and by a total of $62 million in VC backing to date.

VBrick's complete product line is designed to create a foundation for your entire network video ecosystem, and is made up of:

EtherneTV
Is their enterprise-wide solution composed of a set of scalable, industrial strength, network-aware appliances that allow organizations to build a video infrastructure on top of any existing IP network. Each component plays a significant role in capturing, recording, managing, distributing, and viewing your video assets.

VBrick Appliances
Industrial strength, portable VBrick Appliances deliver video on local area networks, wide area networks, and the Internet through its customers' VPN IP network.

VBCast
Travel to a location, connect your camera and microphone and begin broadcasting. The package contains everything you need to go live in an instant.

VBrick’s software and video appliances enable you to distribute a live webcast, complete with timed PowerPoint slides. PowerPoint slides???

You can also view and record a live feed from remote appliances. Now, that's more like it for me.

Do You Want Your Own Live TV Studio?

All you need is a Veodia account, a computer and a camera. Does this sound real?

As Veodia says, it was designed with three fundamental principles in mind:

1. You shouldn't need to be expert in video compression or streaming
2. You shouldn't need to buy expensive equipment
3. You should retain full control and ownership of your content

That's why all you need to use Veodia is an account, a computer and camera. Simply plug your camera into your computer, log on to Veodia, and press Start to begin broadcasting live interactive TV broadcasts over the Internet to thousands of viewers on computers and mobile phones. When you press Stop at the end, the recording is instantly available for on-demand playback on computers, cell phones, iPods and Apple TV sets.

The publishing feature does allow you to privately manage your content, publish it onto your blog or site -- and track viewers with detailed streaming reports. Nifty!



Try it free - set up an account that provides 500 MB storage and webcasting up to 5 viewers. If you are satisfied with the show, they’ll be glad to quote you their one-time, subscription, and hosting plans.