Live TV Over IP

Video Furnace has developed a revolutionary end-to-end solution that digitally encodes any analog video/audio source into an MPEG compliant format, encapsulates and injects the video stream onto your network using standard IP protocols for delivery to all desktops in your enterprise. The viewer application is a small highly optimized device specific application that is streamed to the client when the video is requested and removes itself when the session is closed or terminated. This enables an IT department to have complete control of versioning and usage, and to avoid the significant support overhead associated with thick client media applications that must be installed and maintained for each operating system. By utilizing the multicast protocol, a single stream can be viewed simultaneously by every desktop in your enterprise.

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Until now, available IP video has been largely limited to video applications designed for the Internet, with its low to medium bandwidth and high overhead requirements, resulting in a marginal video experience. Further, these existing video technologies are client-centric applications: that is, each viewer on the network must have an installed player, browser plug-in or hardware device to enable video capability. Consequently, any enterprise wishing to offer video services must bear the burden of deploying and maintaining additional client software as well as the introduction of a host of networking nightmares, including additional maintenance, wasted use of massive amounts of bandwidth, security and network management problems.

Now, with the Video Furnace IP Video System, enterprises with high-speed private network capacity can deliver full-motion, real time, TV-quality video to viewing devices running Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Not only does the company's IP Video System eliminate the need for client resident software, the system is a simple server installation to the enterprise's network operations center.

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Video Furnace's IP Video System enables enterprises to leverage their existing high-speed network investment to exploit the full potential of TV quality real-time video. For example, universities can offer video services to the entire campus community by utilizing multicasting to provide:

• Cable TV to every student on campus with a PC, while simultaneously reducing the high cost of installing traditional cable television systems and leveraging their network infrastructure investment;
  
• State-of-the-art instructional video media to the classroom, as well as remote/virtual classrooms, thereby teaching more students with fewer facilities; and
  
• Broadcasting or re-broadcasting live events.

Securities brokerage firms and governmental organizations can multicast live, real-time video information (in addition to any other type of data) to their customers or personnel to:

• Make real-time mission critical decisions;
  
• Learn late-breaking news; and
  
• Receive corporate communications or training.

Viewers on the network can:

• Enjoy TV-quality video while simultaneously performing other work or study-related functions on their PCs; and
  
• Avoid lost productivity and the need to gather in common viewing areas or travel to remote geographic locations by converging services to the desktop.

The Live Server is also responsible for applying commercial strength encryption to the streams, thus protecting the content at all times. The Live Server utilizes standard Intel® based 1U rack mount hardware running under the Linux® operating system for reliability and stability. All components have been designed for mission critical environments. Full software remote administration enables a true "lights out" operation.

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