Qumu Video Control Center - Enterprise webcasting appliances and software
The Qumu Video Control Center is a solution that provides central control for all video applications, content and resources involved in the production and delivery of enterprise video. The Video Control Center conforms to your network and business constraints by handling the entire video asset lifecycle, from creation to distribution. Companies have found that a system that can flexibly support current best of breed components in the video infrastructure, including encoders, editing tools, streaming servers, CDNs, rights control/DRM, portals, videoconferencing systems, etc., delivers the highest return on investment. The Qumu Video Control Center is available both as an appliance model as well as a software solution.
Features
- Video Infrastructure Management – Provides a “central nervous system” for controlling all components of the video infrastructure on the network, including advanced media delivery services for the enterprise. Safeguard your sessions with fault tolerance, failover capabilities, and video resource allocation. Automatically support multiple bit rates and resolutions for serving viewers at varying levels of network connectivity.
- Video Content Management – Enables the management and categorization of assets, including videos, documents, images and other files, and standards for securely publishing presentations to corporate standard portals. Index and search video assets for playback and review. Enhanced audience interactivity with Q&A, testing, and polling. Includes comprehensive monitoring and reporting on usage of live and on-demand video assets. Easily notify your viwer audience and schedule events.
- Flexibility – Integrates with existing enterprise video infrastructure including encoders, content delivery networks (CDN’s), web portals, and video conferencing systems. Integrate with existing video formats and players – H.264, QuickTime, Real, Windows Media Server, Flash, MPEG-4, Silverlight and others. Ultimate control in applying your corporate branding, ranging from high level to departmental.
Benefits
- Unites existing video assets into a comprehensive whole – Manages thousands of videos, categorizes, protects, authenticates, and indexes
- Scales massively – Reach large, disparate audiences in real time. Both live webcasting and video-on-demand to an enterprise audience across global corporate networks; supports tens of thousands of simultaneous users, both internal employees as well as external audiences
- Leverages existing infrastructure – Offers the broadest support of WAN distribution hardware (Cisco, BlueCoat, Riverbed), video encoders (Qumu Capture Studio, Viewcast, vBrick, Envivio, etc.), and portals (Microsoft Sharepoint, IBM Websphere, or other program browsers) on the market.
- Reduces Time & Effort – For both administrators and the video audience, the Video Control Center removes effort and pain from the streaming video effort
- Deliver video across your diverse IT environment with a system that is cross platform, cross device and cross browser.
- Track popularity and viewership of VOD content.
- Provide a dynamic and personalized viewer experience. Empower the user to watch the presentation as they wish or provide a standardized layout.
- Leverage you existing video conference investment to produce scalable live webcasts or record Video Conference meetings to convert them into on-demand video assets. Seamless integration with Polycom and Tandberg Video Conference systems offers compatibility throughout your enterprise. Solves the Time and Distance problems organizations face in enabling video conferences to be more productive for your users.
