Easily Manage and Deliver Live Webcasts to Thousands

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Qumu VideoEdge is a scalable, automated webcasting infrastructure that enables organizations to quickly deploy an enterprise video communications platform that delivers secure, live and on-demand business video to hundreds or thousands of desktops within enterprise networks.

Built on top of Microsoft Windows media streaming environment, and leveraging Qumu’s proven, scalable MediaNet software, VideoEdge minimizes the impact of Windows Media and Adobe Flash media files on organization networks. Qumu VideoEdge ensures that requested video files are quickly and efficiently accessed and delivered with streaming performance for an outstanding viewing experience in either Live, re-broadcast or on-demand.

Features

  • Live Broadcast Workflow
    – VideoEdge provides a simple interface to manage the testing, provisioning, starting, monitoring, stopping, and tearing down of the dynamic streaming network configuration.
  • Publishing Point Automation
    – VideoEdge automates the setup of publishing points on all streaming servers on the network. It recognizes various roles that a server may play: origin point, distribution node, edge node. The user can select origin and destination nodes and VideoEdge selects a distribution route.
  • Network Flexibility
    – VideoEdge allows administrators to specify whether a publishing point is capable of supporting multicast or unicast.  VideoEdge automates maximization of bandwidth conservation with a combination of unicast and multicast network segments and provides multicast-to-unicast failover on designated servers. Embedded tools also schedule transmissions which conform to a given format and bitrate. VideoEdge saves bandwidth by offering the option to select particular edge nodes or groups of edge nodes.
  • Streaming Server Monitoring
    – VideoEdge automatically monitors all streaming servers and displays failure notices immediately if any of the servers fail. This helps ensure a successful event for the viewing audience.
  • Failover
    – VideoEdge provides automatic routing of user requests to the closest streaming edge server, and failover to the second closest server. It uses automatically-generated server-side playlists to implement a level of failover across the network. Playlists are generated on origin streaming servers, distribution servers, and edge servers to provide automated failover for encoders and streaming servers at all levels.
  • Multicast Announcement Automation
    – VideoEdge automatically creates multicast announcement files for dynamically-created publishing points on edge servers. The announcement files are built in a way that guarantees uninterrupted viewing in the case of an encoder failure.

Benefits

  • Saves time by automating the creation and teardown of publishing points on streaming servers.
  • Improves viewer retention by eliminating delays.
  • Deliver video and presentation content throughout your network safely, securely and without creating network congestion.
  • Guarantee timely content distribution, while decreasing costs and overhead typically associated with video distribution.
  • Ensures that viewers remain connected to the video stream in the case of an encoder or streaming server failure.
  • Automates the connections monitoring during a live event so any problems can be immediately detected and solved.
  • Allows administrators to supply applicable streaming options by location.
  • Scales Live and On-Demand broadcasts to tens of thousands of viewers.
  • Controls access inside and outside the firewall.