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ViewCast Corporation (OTCBB: VCST - News), a leading global provider of
high-quality audio and video communication products, today announced that it has
developed a flexible and cost-effective IP-based solution for video streaming
and archiving of material from public safety cameras. The company's Niagara
7224 streaming media encoder is designed specifically to enable organizations
such as municipal transit authorities to deliver live traffic video to public
service agencies and local residents over the Internet in Windows Media and RealVideo formats using industry-standard IP technology.
"The IP-based
video surveillance market reached $227 million in 2005 and is rapidly
expanding," noted Dave Stoner, president and COO of ViewCast Corporation.
"Initial projections indicate demand for IP video surveillance equipment is
expected to grow by 40 percent during the next 5 years. Uniquely suited for
traffic surveillance, the Niagara 7224 encoder will be marketed to government
agencies and consulting firms, across the U.S."
"Typical installations
for video streaming and archiving of content acquired with public safety cameras
are flawed in that they are proprietary and equipment-dependent, which means
that such video may be distributed only to those viewers with matching playback
systems and cannot be viewed by the general public," said Stoner. "Our
Niagara-based solution encodes up to eight feeds over the Internet in Windows
Media and RealVideo using industry-standard IP technology, and provides
software control, local or networked, to simplify management and monitoring of
all those simultaneous streams. With this capability municipal organizations can
alleviate roadway congestion by making traffic issues known to the public and to
the officials responsible for dealing with such matters."
The new Niagara
7224 from ViewCast features two Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors and two
integrated Osprey-440 four-channel video- and audio-capture cards providing
eight audio and video inputs per installed system. The Niagara 7224 more than
doubles rack density for multi-channel streaming installations and provides a
very attractive cost per channel. Multiple Niagara encoders can be combined on a
single network to support an unlimited number of feeds, all under the control of ViewCast Niagara SCX encoder management software.
In practical
applications, traffic cameras are linked to the ViewCast Niagara 7224 encoding
system, which in turn streams content to the Web for public viewing and/or
delivers content to a rack-mount Niagara server for archiving as a Windows Media
or RealVideo stream or as AVI files or Flash video. Also included with the
system is ViewCast's Osprey SimulStream software which allows a single input
feed to be split out and encoded as a Windows Media Stream and as a RealVideo
stream. The resulting media can be delivered over an Ethernet connection for
internal viewing via PC or video display, or it can be accessed externally via
the Internet by PC or Mac, through wireless connection by mobile devices such as
PDAs and smartphones, or even on terminals in first-responder
vehicles.
"The new Niagara 7224 encoder offers unified control over
multiple feeds encoded in just one box, giving municipal transit authorities an
easy-to-use, space- and cost-saving solution for handling the ever-increasing
burden of traffic management," added Mr. Stoner. "The system is modular and
infinitely scalable, so it can grow along with the city infrastructure and
traffic-monitoring needs."
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