
VBoss Admin Guide 75
Chapter 7
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
What is VBoss?
VBoss is VBrick Online Streaming Service. VBoss empowers anyone to deliver professional
quality live and stored audio/video to viewers via the public Internet.
What makes VBoss unique?
VBoss includes the award-winning VBrick Video Network Appliance, Internet streaming
bandwidth, file storage, personalized viewing pages, and complete remote management.
Unlike other services, VBoss allows you to broadcast from virtually anywhere, even from
behind firewalls, while still providing comprehensive and automatic configuration
management. VBoss simplicity, reliability, and management make it an industry-first.
Is VBoss reliable?
VBoss is the most reliable service available today. In addition to automatically provisioning
the “insanely reliable” VBrick appliance, VBoss provides streaming service from Akamai, one
of the industry leading content distribution networks.
How does VBoss work?
Put a provided VBrick appliance at a desired broadcast location and connect it to your audio/
video source (e.g. camera, microphone) via conventional composite or S-Video cables, and to
your network via Ethernet cable. Your live audio/video is compressed using Windows Media
format (WM9) and it is streamed over the public Internet using firewall-friendly HTTP (port
80) to one or more Content Distribution Network entry points. Your audience views the live
video via a VBoss hosted web page that you customize. The viewing web page displays the
video by accessing the Content Distribution Network.
You record your live video directly on the VBrick appliance using the Events Scheduling
feature. Scheduling your events with VBoss allows you to start/stop your broadcast, monitor
your live video, schedule recordings, and automatically send them via FTP to our servers,
where they will be available for playback. The VBrick appliance at your location is
automatically configured by the VBoss server. In case of difficulty, VBoss support
technicians can remotely access the appliance to ensure rapid problem resolution.
What video quality does VBoss provide?
Excellent quality. Video quality depends on the video bit rate and resolution settings. Because
viewers may have different network capabilities, VBoss supports Multiple Bit Rate encoding
of the live, and subsequently stored, video. For example, this allows viewers that are capable
of receiving a 700 Kbps stream to receive a higher quality video than viewers that are capable
of receiving only 300 Kbps.
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