Easy Anytime, Anywhere Access to Digital Media

Help users and customers conveniently and quickly browse, search, and view digital media with the Cisco Video Portal. An integrated component of the Cisco Digital Media System for Cisco Desktop Video, the Cisco Video Portal is a sophisticated video playback portal that uses standard Web technologies to deliver live Webcasts and on-demand video to your audiences. Platform independent, the Cisco Video Portal fits easily into your organization's existing network and IT infrastructure and supports established video formats such as Windows Media, Adobe Flash, and MPEG/H.264.

With the Cisco Video Portal, users and customers can:

• Access compelling content from a single portal over the Web
• Easily search for content by category, program, title, or keyword
• Customize playlists with dynamic user-controlled "favorites"
• Access supplemental content such as documents, presentations, or other related videos and materials
• Take advantage of advanced player controls and full-screen mode for optimal viewing
• See main-window video playback and thumbnail previews simultaneously
• View audio and video streams along with synchronized graphics for both live events and video on demand (VoD) sessions
• Submit text-based questions to producers and presenters during live Webcast events
• Support optional login and authentication through a Microsoft Active Directory Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server

Additional User Benefits

• With the Cisco Digital Media Manager, you can quickly and easily customize the look and feel of the Cisco Video Portal to reflect your organization's brand or functional purpose
• Use the included Web-based reporting tool, which measures viewing of individual video streams by author or other parameters to help you assess the effectiveness of your digital media content; track individual videos or groups of videos