VBrick Systems VB4000, VB6000, VB5000 manual WM Admin Guide, Organization

WM Admin Guide

This VBrick WM Admin Guide is written for anyone who will be using or configuring a VB6000 Series WM appliance. This includes system administrators, network technicians, and anyone who will be using or configuring a VBrick network video appliance. The VBrick WM Appliance is compatible with Microsoft Windows Media and converts analog video and audio from any source into digital Windows Media streams. It attaches to your network and delivers the streaming video and audio directly to any Windows Media-compatible player or server. The VBrick can deliver the streams via multicast to any number of players on the network and it can serve the stream via unicast to up to 200 players or servers. The WM Appliance is part of VBrick's award winning VB6000 series of products with a proven track record of quality, reliability and flexibility.

VBrick's WM Appliance is an industrial strength, versatile, and reliable video appliance for one-way communication over low and medium bandwidth IP networks using the widely deployed Windows Media

format. The WM Appliance can be deployed in a variety of ways and integrates seamlessly into existing Windows Media deployments. This powerful, yet inexpensive product can reach thousands of people on your enterprise network, VPN, or the Internet. The Windows Media appliance provides both Windows Media encoder functionality and Windows Media server functionality for live video. A key benefit is its compatibility with the Windows Media Player, thus eliminating the need for a desktop player installation.

Organization

Introduction	provides an overview of the WM Appliance and typical VBrick
	applications. It explains how to optimize performance and how
	to deliver multiple bit rate streams.
WM Configuration	explains all configuration windows for the encoder. These
	include encoder audio and video settings as well as passthrough,
	SNMP traps, script management, etc.
Status	explains the status screens that provide information about the
	system, the encoder, the server. It also explains how to view the
	system and event logs and traps.
Diagnostics	explains how to run various diagnostic tests. These include ping,
	traceroute, and loopback.
Maintenance	explains how to manage device information and reset all
	configuration parameters to the defaults. It also explains how to
	save configuration data and/or rewrite it back to the encoder.
Maintenance Mode	explains how to use a limited subset of the IWS interface to
	manage appliance configuration parameters when there is a
	firmware download failure.
WM Templates	shows each setting on the pre-configured audio and video
	templates that are provided for common encoder configurations.

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