VBrick Rev for Cisco Unified Communications Solutions Data Sheet

VBrick Rev enables companies to deliver video across a variety of platforms and devices, making enterprise video easier and more manageable than ever before with the widest range of deployment options. Transform business processes with a secure enterprise video platform supported across both mobile and desktop devices.

Rev enables organizations to efficiently deliver high-quality live and on-demand video to enterprisewide audiences, both internally using the corporate WAN and externally across the Internet. Rev allows you to centrally manage video assets, user access, and permissions.

Rev is a cloud-native platform that uses modern web technologies to provide an intuitive interface for end users. Support for both mobile and desktop devices helps ensure that users can watch live and on-demand content from a wide variety of devices. With support for responsive design, the user interface adapts to the device in use, helping ensure an optimal user experience (Figure 1). Rev offers extensive interoperability with Cisco^® Unified Communications solutions that enable Cisco customers to unleash a multitude of video-enhanced productivity workflows, including the ability to:

●   Automatically ingest Cisco Meeting Server files into the Rev portal, where they can be organized, searched, displayed, and viewed by anyone in an organization or automatically posted into Cisco Spark^™ rooms

●   Subscribe to relevant Rev video categories and receive and share alerts about new Rev videos with Cisco Spark users

●   Join a Cisco WebEx^® session and stream, record, and view the video via the cloud through the Rev enterprise video platform, allowing organizations to extend the value of their video conferencing investment with the added benefits of Rev’s management, distribution, sources, and integration features

●   Record meetings from Cisco TelePresence^® endpoints into Rev’s sleek, modern video portal, where they can be securely and scalably shared across the organization

●   Convert any Cisco endpoint into an HD webcasting studio, using Rev for live, companywide executive broadcasts

●   Enable Cisco WebEx users to easily ingest and transcode Cisco WebEx Collaboration Meeting Rooms (CMR) recordings and publish them for only specific users to play back on multiple devices and browsers

Rev also manages the VBrick Distribute Media Engine (DME) enterprise content delivery network (eCDN), providing a single interface to publish and distribute video across the network in a bandwidth-efficient manner.

Flexible deployment options allow enterprises to deploy Rev as a managed service in the cloud, a fully on‑premises application, or a combination of cloud and on-premises infrastructure in a hybrid deployment. The hybrid deployment model allows you to combine the application, storage, and management provisioned in the cloud with the DME eCDN functions inside the enterprise network. Each deployment model provides the same rich feature set for users. This next-generation platform provides elasticity, high availability, and redundancy.

Rev uses your organization's Active Directory, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), or single sign-on (SSO) service to authenticate user access to video content. You can use the Rev user dashboard to set up groups, roles, and permissions that enable system administrators and presenters to choose which individuals have access to which content.

Rev supports the most widely used enterprise video applications, including meeting and event broadcasting. Rev is an integrated, browser-based platform for live-streaming events to large audiences inside and outside the enterprise network:

●   Training, lecture capture, and corporate communications: Upload video and make it available for playback on a wide variety of devices.

●   Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) distribution: Give access to live streaming video in a browser-based interface.

Table 1 lists the features and benefits, Table 2 describes platform support and compatibility, and Table 3 gives information about browser and player compatibility for the Rev solution.

Table 1.       Features and Benefits

Table 2.       Platform Support and Compatibility

Table 3.       Browser and Player Compatibility

The following video formats are supported for Rev upload:

●   Windows Media, Flash, and H.264

●   Apple QuickTime (H.264 modified/mov)

●   M4V (H.264 video and AAC audio)

●   MPEG-2

●   MPEG-4

●   MPEG-1

Table 4 gives licensing information, Table 5 gives product specifications, and Table 6 lists system requirements. Tables 7 and 8 give ordering information for the VBrick Rev and VBrick Rev Solutions Plus user tier offers, respectively.

Table 4.       Licensing

Table 5.       Product Specifications

Table 6.       System Requirements

Table 7.       Ordering Information for the VBrick Rev User Tier Offer

Table 8.       Ordering Information for the VBrick Rev SolutionsPlus User Tier Offers

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