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ViewCast
Announces
Niagara® PowerStream
for High-Bandwidth Streaming
New Streaming System Addresses Performance Needs
for
Broadband Business Video Applications!
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We
are very pleased to announce our latest high-performance
streaming system, the new Niagara® PowerStream.
The Niagara PowerStream is a premium 2U rack-mount streaming
media encoder designed for the high-bandwidth streaming
of corporate and business video communications. This
powerhouse encoder addresses broadband needs for security/surveillance,
training, corporate video, and business TV applications.
The
Demand for Power Systems
Streaming encoding software engines such as Windows
Media Encoder and Real Helix Producer are becoming more
CPU intensive with each software release as the demand
for high-bandwidth streaming of business video continues
to grow. More advanced solutions are required to provide
businesses with the high-quality content they seek to
deliver, plus meet the processing consumption of the
most popular streaming engines.
The
Niagara PowerStream Solution
With the introduction of the Niagara PowerStream systems,
ViewCast offers the most powerful streaming solutions
addressing the growth of high-bandwidth content delivery.
Niagara
PowerStream is part of ViewCast's family of the Niagara
rack-mountable and portable turnkey streaming systems
for business video applications. Niagara Streaming Systems
incorporate ViewCast streaming software tools which
include SimulStream™, for simultaneous multiple
bit rate/multiple format streaming and capture from
a single video source, plus Niagara SCX™, which
enables remote monitoring and control of multiple or
distributed streaming encoders, via a single encoding
interface.
Niagara
PowerStream features:
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New
High-Performance Osprey® Video Streaming Capture
Cards!
New Osprey-230 and Osprey-560 Offer PCI-X
Compatibility for Professional Video Applications!
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The
new Osprey-230 and Osprey-560 are ViewCast's most advanced
capture cards for high-performance streaming media content
creation. These new streaming capture cards are PCI-X
compatible improving performance for high-bandwidth streaming.
Osprey-230
The Osprey-230 is a low-profile analog capture card engineered
to meet the growing needs of digital media content creators
and system integrators. Mid-tier content creation professionals,
enthusiast/hobbyist, and enterprise communications will
find that the Osprey-230 analog audio video inputs and
audio outputs meet their requirements for professional
media capture.
In
addition, its new board design allows system integrators
to take advantage of low-profile computer chassis benefits.
Osprey-560
The Osprey-560 is a professional-grade digital and analog
capture device designed specifically for high-quality
streaming media applications. The faster speeds and higher
throughput offered with the Osprey-560 are blended with
high-end inputs, outputs and advanced features that allow
seamless integration with professional media equipment
and workflow environments. News broadcast facilities,
Fortune 1000 enterprises, entertainment studios and post-production
houses will discover that the Osprey-560 directly addresses
their broad spectrum needs for A/V inputs and high-bandwidth
streaming performance.
Key
Capture Components for High-Quality
ViewCast has consistently made adjustments to our streaming
capture cards to meet your evolving needs for high-performance
video capture equipment. Since streaming media experts
like you are doing more with digital media than ever before,
a new level of performance and flexibility is required.
The Osprey-230 and the Osprey-560 will take you to that
level by taking advantage of today's faster computer platforms
allowing your video capture process to produce even better
results.
Our
Osprey Video products have long been recognized as key
capture components for the production of high-quality
live streaming media. With these new high-performance
capture cards you will be able to go beyond previous limitations
to extend your quality while increasing efficiencies and
scalability.
Compatible
with ViewCast Productivity Software
The Osprey-230 and the Osprey-560 are compatible with
ViewCast software products including Osprey
SimulStream and Digital
SimulStream, respectively, and both are compatible
with Niagara
SCX. These new products easily integrate into third-party
rich media applications, thereby greatly reducing your
custom development efforts for system integration.
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Technology
Preview:
ViewCast
Provides a Peek into
Future Video Capture Technologies
Windows
Media 9 Series hardware-based encoding
demonstrated
at NAB 2003!
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ViewCast
provided a glimpse into the future of digital media
content creation last month. In collaboration with Texas
Instruments and Microsoft, ViewCast Osprey Video demonstrated
real-time hardware encoding at the National Association
of Broadcasters exposition (NAB 2003) using Windows
Media 9 Series, the latest digital media technology
from Microsoft released in January.
The
demonstration was held in the Microsoft booth # SL136
and built on recent announcements by Microsoft and Texas
Instruments to port the Windows Media 9 Series to powerful
TMS320C64X TI DSP platform.
"Viewcast
is showing its innovation with this display of real-time
hardware-based encoding using Windows Media 9 Series,"
said Jonathan Usher, director of the Windows Digital
Media Division at Microsoft. "Windows Media 9 Series
is designed to deliver the major step forward in professional
quality and performance so that companies such as ViewCast
can use it to create new features and capabilities for
their products."
ViewCast
unveiled this technology preview with the intention
of garnering market feedback and bringing in early development
partners and integrators.
"We
are pleased to be working with ViewCast and Microsoft
to present how digital media content creation is changing,"
said Pradeep Bardia, worldwide marketing manager for
Texas Instruments DSP video and imaging business unit.
"The programmability and flexibility of TI's digital
media processor gives ViewCast's popular Osprey Video
capture cards the ability to revolutionize the way streaming
media is created."
ViewCast
has been engaged in an ongoing collaborative effort
with Microsoft and Texas instruments and plans to continue
developing this technology into a commercially viable
solution for a variety of market segments.
The
next step is to go beyond this technology preview and
blend the collaborative efforts to date with market
feedback into our next generation products and solutions.
This technology demonstrates ViewCast's commitment to
future development programs targeted at changing and
enhancing the digital media content creation landscape.
Our customers want high-quality media they can rely
on. By blending Microsoft's Windows Media 9 Series technology
with Texas Instruments powerful DSP platforms and Osprey
Video's capabilities, this promises an exciting future
for you and the industry at large.
ViewCast
welcomes your comments about hardware encoding technology
for streaming. Click
here or send an email to [email protected].
