VBrick Systems VB4000, VB6000, VB5000 manual Application Description, VBricks Streaming Ecosystem

Introduction

applications at the same time. One of the major benefits of the VBrick WM Appliance is it's compatibility with the Microsoft ecosystem; this makes it easy to integrate with existing Windows Media installations.

Table 2. Typical VBrick Applications

Application	Description
Standalone Multicast	Streaming video and audio can be multicasted from the VBrick
	WM Appliance directly to Microsoft's Windows Media Player on
	an unlimited number of PCs.
Standalone Unicast	Streaming video and audio can be unicasted from the VBrick WM
	Appliance via HTTP or RTSP (UDP) directly to Microsoft's
	Windows Media Player on up to 200 PCs depending on bit rate.
Pull Reflection via	Streaming video and audio can be pulled from the VBrick WM
Microsoft Windows	Appliance by a publishing point on a Microsoft Windows Media or
Media or RealNetworks	RealNetworks Helix server. The stream is then reflected by the
Helix Servers	server to players and other servers using any protocol supported
	by the server.
Push Reflection via	Streaming video and audio can be pushed from the VBrick WM
Microsoft Windows	Appliance to a publishing point on up to 25 Microsoft Windows
Media or RealNetworks	Media or RealNetworks Helix servers. The stream is then reflected
Helix Servers	by the servers to players and other servers using any protocol
	supported by the server.
HTTP Push to a VBrick	Streaming video and audio can be pushed via HTTP from a local
Reflector	WM VBrick to up to 25 reflectors on remote WM VBricks. From
	each reflector, the stream can then be multicast over the remote
	LAN, unicast to a maximum of 200 PCs, or be pushed again to
	other reflectors.
HTTP Pull to a VBrick	Streaming video and audio can be pulled via HTTP from a local
Reflector	VBrick WM Appliance to a remote VBrick Reflector. From the
	Reflector, the stream can be then multicast over the remote LAN,
	unicast to a maximum of 200 PCs, or be pushed or pulled again to
	other server or VBrick reflectors.

Figure 1. VBrick's Streaming Ecosystem

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