VBrick Ecosystem Partners

 

Ecosystem Partners

At VBrick, we believe it is just as important to recognize good ideas as it is to invent them.  We are on a continuous search for technologies and services that enhance our ability to deliver comprehensive, turnkey IP Video solutions.  By forming alliances with best-of-breed vendors, VBrick makes it easy to tailor your IP Video application to exactly your requirements. We’ve done the hard work of integrating with multiple IP Video technologies – so you don’t have to.

 

» Networking and CDNs

Akamai

Akamai provides market-leading managed services for powering rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. VBrick Online Services utilizes Akamai delivery services as part of its core offering.


Mirror Image

Mirror Image® Internet, a global network for online content, application and transaction delivery, provides Content Delivery, Streaming Media, Web Computing and Reporting solutions that offer customers a smarter way to create more engaging Web experiences for users worldwide.


PowerStream

PowerStream is a privately held company headquartered in Detroit, MI and has been a leader in the streaming media space for over a decade continuing to provide powerful, cost effective solutions for delivering rich streaming content.

 

Limelight Networks

Limelight Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: LLNW) is the content delivery partner for thousands of entertainment, technology, enterprise, and government entities around the world. Our robust architecture bypasses the cramped public Internet, delivering live or on-demand content directly over a dedicated fiber-optic network that interconnects with thousands of servers and more than 900 user access networks.


Interoute

Interoute's network is the largest in Europe today, offering unparalleled homogeneity, reach and capacity. Our products and services include bandwidth, virtual private networks, high speed internet access and transit, managed hosting, communications services and media streaming.


Caprock

The company's end-to-end solutions provide customers with integrated fixed and mobile satellite communications and network services. CapRock serves its customers through three primary markets: Energy, Government and Maritime.


Internap

Internap is a leading Internet solutions company that provides The Ultimate Online Experience™ by managing, delivering and distributing applications and content with 100% performance and reliability. With a global platform of data centers, managed Internet services and a content delivery network (CDN), Internap frees its customers to innovate their business, improve service levels, and lower the cost of IT operations.


» LMS/ MAM / Portals

Blackboard

Blackboard Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise learning software applications and related services. Founded in 1997, Blackboard enables educational innovations everywhere by connecting people and technology.


Moodle

Moodle is a course management system designed to help educators who want to create quality online courses. The software is used all over the world by universities, schools, companies and independent teachers. Moodle is provided either in an open source or ASP model.


Learn.com

Learn.com is a worldwide leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity with more than 50 million end users around the globe. Whether you are visiting Learn.com to develop an entire workforce or your individual skills we have a solution for you.


» Video Conferencing

Tandberg

Tandberg is a leading global provider of telepresence, high-definition video conferencing and mobile video products and services with dual headquarters in New York and Norway. Tandberg designs, develops and markets systems and software for video, voice and data.

Tandberg & VBrick – Extending Videoconferencing
Tandberg & VBrick – Scalable Interactive Broadcasts
Tandberg & VBrick – Webcasting

Polycom

Polycom, Inc. is a global leader in telepresence, video, and voice solutions and a visionary in communications that empower people to connect and collaborate everywhere.

Polycom & VBrick – Extending Videoconferencing
Polycom & VBrick – Scalable Interactive Broadcasts
Polycom & VBrick – Webcasting Polycom User's Group Case Study

LifeSize

LifeSize develops and delivers high definition video communications products. Founded in 2003 by industry veterans and named “Videoconferencing Company of the Year” in 2007 by Videoconferencing Insight.


Vidyo

Vidyo’s solutions address known cost and performance challenges impacting the broad scale adoption of internet-based video communication and collaboration.


Glowpoint

Glowpoint is a leading provider of advanced video communications solutions. Our suite of advanced and robust telepresence and video communications service solutions empower global organizations to dramatically enhance the impact and productivity of their internal and external communications, while reducing their ongoing operating costs.

 


» Streaming Servers

Microsoft

Microsoft provides the WindowsMedia product line including streaming servers, video encoder software, digital rights management, and video player software.


Apple

Apple provides the Quicktime product line including streaming servers, video encoder software, digital rights management, and video player software.


WowzaMedia

WowzaMedia powers many high volume live Flash sites including LiveStream.com and Justin.tv with their server software that is compatible with the VBrick H264 encoding appliances.


» Telemedicine

ORLive

ORLive is a leading surgical broadcasting company. Working collaboratively with hospitals and device manufacturers, ORLive produces customized, interactive, video programs that demonstrate the latest surgical techniques and product innovations. The ORLive broadcasting network provides an intimate look at over 650 live and on-demand surgeries to a global audience, streaming over 50,000 hours of programming each month.


ConMed

CONMED Corporation is a global medical technology company that specializes in the development and sale of products and services that allow our physician customers to deliver high quality care and as a result, enhanced clinical outcomes for their patients.


Karl Storz

"Manufacturer of Remote Visual Inspection equipment, we rely on the dedication, expertise, and diversity of our people to make the KARL STORZ team unique in the industry. With 400 national and international patents and prototypes, KARL STORZ sets the standard against which other companies will measure themselves for generations to come. "


» Signage and Displays

Visix

Visix, Inc. designs, develops and supports software applications that allow users to create, import and manage visual communications from anywhere using a browser-based interface, and to deliver those messages to nearly any endpoint.


Barco

Barco, a global technology company, designs and develops visualization solutions for a variety of selected professional markets: medical imaging, media & entertainment, infrastructure & utilities, traffic & transportation, defense & security, education & training and corporate AV.


Harris

Harris Digital Signage solutions enable organizations to create, distribute, and present programming and advertising on digital signage networks.


Scala

Scala is a leading global digital signage company providing software and advertising management solutions. By combining digital and traditional signage systems, Scala offers a leading platform for content creation, management and distribution in digital signage networks, and a unified platform for advertising management of both traditional and digital signage networks.


» Surveillance Systems

VIdSys

VidSys is the leading provider of Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) software that allows organizations to pro-actively resolve business and security situations in real time.


Pelco

Pelco is a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of video and security systems and equipment ideal for any industry. With a long and prestigious history of offering high-quality products and exceptional customer service, Pelco has become the most sought-after product supplier in the security industry.


360 Software

360 Software partners with larger high-tech companies to provide subcontracting, outsourcing, and staffing solutions, so our customers can respond quickly to opportunities, achieve more from their operations, and exceed their mission requirements. From requirements definition to deployment and training, we consistently deliver award-winning solutions of exceptional value, on time and within budget.


Cisco

Make the most of video system investments and gain new security capabilities with Cisco Physical Security solutions. Scalable Web-based software and broadcast-quality hardware integrate with existing analog and network-centric systems to facilitate faster incident response and resolution.


L-3 Communications

"L-3 Communications has grown very quickly into the sixth largest defense company in the United States, and is a leader and prime defense contractor in Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), secure communications, government services, training and simulation and aircraft modernization and maintenance. The company also is a leading merchant supplier of guidance and navigation products and systems, sensors, scanners, fuzes, data links, propulsion systems, avionics, electro optics, satellite communications, electrical power equipment, encryption products, signal intelligence, antennas and microwave products. "


Echostorm

Is a global leader in innovative video and data management technology for military, government, and commercial applications. EchoStorm provides a suite of secure, net-centric technology that enables users to capture, manage, and disseminate images, data, and full-motion video in near real time.


» Room Control

Crestron

Crestron is a leading manufacturer of advanced control and automation systems, innovating technology and reinventing the way people live and work. Offering integrated solutions to control audio, video, computer, IP and environmental systems, Crestron streamlines technology, improving the quality of life for people in corporate boardrooms, conference rooms, classrooms, auditoriums, and in their homes.


AMX

AMX hardware and software solutions simplify the way people interact with technology. With the increasing number of technologies and operating platforms at work and home, AMX solves the complexity of managing this technology with reliable, consistent and scalable systems. Our award-winning products span control and automation, switching, distributed audio and video, and technology management.


» Application Vendors

IBM Lotus

IBM® Lotus® Sametime®, the IBM award-winning and market-leading platform for UC², offers integrated, enterprise instant messaging, VoIP, video chats, and Web conferencing capabilities with the security features required for business use.


America's Emergency Network

A pioneering Internet and satellite-based network, America's Emergency Network was designed by Bryan Norcross, former hurricane analyst for the CBS network, and Max Mayfield, former director of the National Hurricane Center, to fill critical gaps in the nation’s emergency management system.


Courtroom Connect

Courtroom Connect empowers litigators to be more effective and more efficient with a full range of connectivity services, including video, audio, evidence, and text streaming, as well as videoconferencing for remote attendance at trials, hearings, depositions, and arbitrations.


LiveNote

LiveNote uses VBrick network video appliances to stream video depositions live to anyone in the world, saving significant travel costs and allowing more people to participate in the deposition process.


CommsFirst

CommsFirst provides managed services for high-impact operational disruptions. Regardless of the state of local infrastructure, our people deliver communications, power, and applications to help organizations recover quickly.


Ensemble Video

Ensemble Video provides a flexible and easy-to-use distributed video content administration model for organizations that want to manage video on their media servers and within their own computing environment. Ensemble integrates well with a wide range of video technologies.


Video4Ever

Our flagship content delivery service designed to bring High School and other local sports content to the Internet. We provide a simple and intuitive viewing experience that couples real-time virtual scoreboard technology as well as automated Video On Demand for replaying important local events.


IP Access International

IP Access International is a global business satellite Internet provider delivering high speed satellite Internet service for fixed as well as mobile satellite communications to businesses worldwide. From broadband Internet access to first responder services, IP Access International is a global business connectivity solutions provider, offering high performance, end-to-end networking for voice, video and data services for business satellite Internet solutions.


Renovo Software

Renovo Software is a leading developer of solutions for the video communications industry. Specifically, Renovo partners with customers to design, develop and support powerful, flexible and scalable software solutions that schedule, automate and manage complex video networks.


BT

Voice Trading and Collaboration increases trader productivity, resulting in faster communication with colleagues and customers. More than 60,000 traders use a BT turret for seamless integration with customer relationship management (CRM) tools, instant messaging (IM), email, voice and video. http://www.globalservices.bt.com


IPC

IPC Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of indispensable communications solutions to financial services firms worldwide. IPC offers customers a suite of products and enhanced services that includes advanced Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology, and integrated network and management services to more than 40 countries. http://www.ipc.com/home/index.aspx


» Wireless

HP ProCurve

HP ProCurve offers intelligent 802.11n wireless networking solutions that provide access, management and security for business of all sizes with the flexibility to easily tailor your network to meet changing business needs.


Aruba Networks

Aruba Networks, Inc. provides an enterprise mobility solution that enables secure access to data, voice, and video applications across wireless and wireline enterprise networks in the United States and internationally


Meru Networks

Meru Networks is the global leader in wireless infrastructure solutions that enable the All-Wireless Enterprise. - www.merunetworks.com/


» Caching and Distribution

Bluecoat

BlueCoat Proxy appliances can be used in conjunction with VBrick Network Video appliances and Video on Demand servers to distribute live and on demand video to remote locations in a very bandwidth efficient manner.


Kontiki

Founded in 2000, Kontiki offers an end-to-end Enterprise Video Delivery Solution for customers to meet all of their live and video-on-demand delivery needs, plus more.


F5

F5 Networks is a global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), focused on ensuring the secure, reliable, and fast delivery of applications. F5's flexible architectural framework enables community-driven innovation that helps organizations enhance IT agility and dynamically deliver services that generate true business value.


Riverbed

Riverbed Technology is the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications, and storage. Riverbed provides the only comprehensive WAN optimization solution to a host of severe problems that have effectively prevented enterprises from sharing applications and data across wide areas.


Ignite Technologies

Ignite provides secure and scalable Content Delivery Solutions, enabling customers to efficiently publish, deliver, and manage digital assets–from rich media content for training and communications to software patches and virus updates–to anyone, anywhere, at any time.


» Storage Vendors

HP

"HP offers a wide variety of data storage and server storage products, solutions, and services for home, business and large enterprise customers. This broad range of IT solutions can help you manage and transform your technology environment and increase IT innovation. "


NASI

Founded in 1993, North American Systems has evolved from an IBM midrange shop to a full service IT solution provider. North American Systems storage solutions group can help you combine a variety of storage applications to develop a storage solutions that meets your business’ unique needs.


IBM

IBM offers a comprehensive, flexible storage software portfolio that helps organizations address storage management challenges across the enterprise, including data centers, remote/branch offices and desktop/laptop computers.


EMC

EMC Corporation is a leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information.


NetApp

We made shared storage an affordable reality with the world's first networked storage appliance. And throughout our history, we've continued to deliver groundbreaking technologies that reduce the cost of IT while bringing new capabilities to your business.


» Networking Hardware

HP ProCurve

HP ProCurve is a leader in the networking industry, offering a choice of the best available solutions for enterprises worldwide.


Mushroom Networks

Mushroom Networks' mission is to provide innovative networking solutions. Their patent-pending Broadband Bonding® technology aggregates bandwidth from multiple 3G wireless networks and other terrestrial networks to achieve reliable broadband streaming over mulitple lossy and low-bitrate connections.


3Com

3Com Corporation is a $1.3 billion global enterprise networking solutions provider that sets a new price/ performance standard for customers. 3Com has three global brands—H3C, 3Com, and TippingPoint—that offer high-performance networking and security solutions to enterprises large and small.


Brocade

"Brocade is an industry leader in data center networking solutions and services that enable organizations to manage their most vital information assets. Brocade has pioneered the technologies that enable highly reliable and secure data center connectivity. Today most of the world’s data flows through Brocade equipment and data center networks built on Brocade technology. "


Enterasys

Enterasys® network switching, routing and security solutions are used by thousands of customers in more than 70 countries worldwide to deliver business-oriented, identity-based visibility and control for voice, video, and data applications.


Extreme Networks

Extreme Networks addresses a wide range of customers with wired and wireless network infrastructures. From corporate enterprises such as manufacturers, retailers, financial institutions, utilities and healthcare organizations, to large universities and K-12 school districts to federal and local governments worldwide.


DigiWAN

Our state-of-the-art Data Centres are comprised of ultra high-quality, networking gear, climate control, security and power systems. Our network is comprised of connectivity from several leading Internet backbone providers and enables us to achieve 99% network uptime for our customers.


» Editing and Transcoding

Adobe Premiere

Capture, edit, and deliver video online, on air, on disc, or on device. Tell your story with maximum impact using Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS4 software, the start-to-finish video production solution. http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/


Ripcode

RipCode is a market leader in transactional video transcoding; the fundamental technology enabling content owners, network service providers or video delivery platforms to support the proposition of 'any content, anywhere, anytime, any device'.


Avid

Avid creates the digital audio and video technology used to make the most listened to, most watched and most loved media in the world – from the most prestigious and award-winning feature films, music recordings, television shows, live concert tours and news broadcasts, to music and movies made at home.


Apple Final Cut

Apple's Final Cut Pro Software is an all in one video editing, compositing, and special effects package for the Macintosh.


Mediaware Solutions

Mediaware is a leading global developer and supplier of compressed digital video processing systems and solutions to the Broadcast and Defense industries.


» Production Systems

Sony

The Sony AWS-G500 Anycast Station is a self-contained, 17-pound, 6-channel switcher with integrated audio mixing, all packaged in a small, portable, enclosure.


NewTek

Since its inception, NewTek has been a driving force in pushing the edge of video and 3D graphics technology while redefining price/performance and ease of use. The NewTek TriCaster provides video mixing and switching and will output analog video that can be used with the VBrick video appliances.


» Content

History Channel

The History Channel (a part of A&E Television Networks a joint venture of The Hearst Corporation, Disney-ABC Television Group and NBC Universal), is an award-winning, international media company offering consumers a diverse communications environment ranging from television programming, to home videos/DVDs and music CDs, to Web sites, as well as supporting nationwide educational initiatives.


Discovery

Discovery Communications is the world's number one nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in over 170 countries. Discovery empowers people to explore their world and satisfy their curiosity through 100-plus worldwide networks.


Films Media Group

Films Media Group is the leading source of high-quality educational video and multimedia programs for schools, colleges, libraries, the medical community, and other institutions. With more than 12,000 titles from some of the world's best producers FMG provides an unparalleled choice of topics and a multifaceted content delivery approach that includes DVD, Digital and VHS. http://www.cambridgeol.com/

 


» Video Services

Caption Colorado

We offer "real-time" closed captioning that utilizes unique technologies coupled with the talents of highly skilled captioners who use stenographic court reporting machines to transcribe the audio on-the-fly, as the words are spoken by the broadcasters.


DocSoft

Docsoft’s provides Captioning and Audio Video Search solutions that help our customers save both time and money along with increasing the value of their audio and video assets.


Caption Mic

Mark Hall Sales Associates, LLC offers a variety of solutions to meet your captioning and accessibility needs. Caption Mic by ULTECH LLC is a speech recognition captioning system which is a flexible, versatile and easy-to-use tool to create captions for live and pre-produced events.


Automatic Sync

Automatic Synch Technologies's CaptionSync automated captioning service offers a wide variety of output formats for captioning Web media, captioning Broadcast media, DVDs, or adding search and navigation features to web media.


CPC Closed Captioning

We have been an industry leader in captioning, subtitling & teleprompting software. To keep up with the newest technology, we have added DVD, Webcasting & HD captioning and subtitling software to our list.


» Event Production

HP CMS

HP Communications and Media Solutions (CMS) assists the world's top communications and media companies to transform their customers' experiences and exceed business objectives of cost efficiency, innovation, and revenues.


Cramer

Cramer began more than 25 years ago as a video services group and has evolved into a full-service digital marketing and event solutions company named one of the top 25 independent agencies in the country by AdvertisingAge®.


iStream Planet

iStreamPlanet delivers the experience, advanced, compatible technology, worldwide reach, and best practices you need to showcase your message.


ADM

ADM Productions has specialized in producing Corporate Events, Video and Brand-Building experiences for three decades. We engage audiences by creating extraordinary experiences for Meetings, Trade Shows, Product Launches and Press Events. In fact, for any live, pre-recorded or streaming communications, we help you deliver your message loud and clear.


Xostech

XOS Technologies is a leading technology partner for maximizing the value of content, commerce and services for sports organizations and fans. Whether it’s a coach assessing recruiting content, a video coordinator creating game-video highlights, a team streaming a press conference online, or a fan engaging in interactive content – XOS plays an integral role in shaping the expectations for how people interact with and consume quality sports content.