OCS Streaming Gateway

Imagine being able to share sensitive video data, collaborate in real-time, and make informed command decisions. Imagine giving employees access to business television or delivering a webcast to every employee in your organization – without them ever leaving their Microsoft Office Communicator client.

Streaming Solutions for Microsoft OCS

VBrick’s OCS Streaming Gateway and VEMS and VEMS Mystro™ bring streaming video to end users via a single point of collaboration: Microsoft’s Office Communicator (OCS). Workers are able to access both live and on demand streaming video from their desktops – making high impact mission critical information readily available. Availability status of content is displayed via Video Buddies™, a unique innovation from VBrick that associates video content with contacts in OCS. With Video Buddies, users are able to easily access video content and then immediately collaborate with OCS’ voice, text and screen-sharing tools in OCS. Since Video Buddies require no desktop software downloads, a streaming video service is easy for a group’s IT department to deploy and administer.

Introducing your Video Buddy™
With the OCS Streaming Gateway and Video Buddies, executives can broad- cast critical information to all employees at the same time. Real-time first responder feeds, live television broadcasts, and security monitoring video can be shared across multiple agencies to facilitate the restoration of essential functions. Teleworkers can access on demand training videos over the internet. VBrick’s VEMS and OCS Streaming Gateway with Video Buddies brings rich media collaboration to every desktop in an organization through the common user interface of Microsoft’s OCS.

Applications

Meeting and Event Broadcasts Deliver video broadcasts to employees, customers and partners via the OCS desktop while enabling them to collabo- rate in real time

Training and Education Deliver live training from OCS to a distributed group, and allow participants to chat and collaborate via Instant Messaging, voice,
or video

IP Television Distribution Distribute live television via OCS and IP to the desktop with real-time text messaging

Surveillance and Monitoring Leverage your OCS environment to integrate surveillance with the ability to escalate the discussion to a manager via voice or text messaging

Benefits

• Combine video streaming, presence and real-time communications to enable new collaboration workflows
• Ability to use the Video Buddy™ contact status and program titles to quickly choose the required video presentation
• Access video content instantly and collaborate via the conventional Microsoft OCS tools
• Embed VBrick live channels into any OCS-enabled application to add impact to even the most mundane document
• More effectively collaborate with peers via chat while reviewing live video