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What is InfoValue Computing's mission?
Since 1994, InfoValue has pioneered and dedicated itself to the
development and delivery of innovative platforms and solutions for
broadband streaming over IP networks. InfoValue’s technologies
and products integrate video and rich media into mainstream operations
in business, hospitality, government, defense, security, education,
telecommunications, cable and many more industries. InfoValue consistently
delivers best-of-breed products that are based on standards-compliant,
open architecture and then optimized with innovative, patented technologies.
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2. What products does InfoValue Offer?
InfoValue ensures the necessary flexibility in its offerings
and delivers both platform and solution levels of products. The
platform products in InfoValue QuickVideo™ suite provide the
powerful, reliable, and scalable foundation for customers to build
their own turnkey solutions. The offerings in the InfoValueTV™
series are ready-for-deployment turnkey solutions comprising InfoValue
QuickVideo™ and industry specific solution integration. Additionally,
when needed, InfoValue can apply its unsurpassed solution expertise
to assist solving a customer’s special needs.
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3. Who uses InfoValue's products?
Customers in enterprise, hospitality, government, defense,
security, education, telecommunications, cable and many more industries
have used InfoValue QuickVideo™ to integrate streaming video
into their mainstream operations. Live and recorded videos can be
instantaneously broadcast or played back on-demand to every TV and
PC in support of corporation communications, training, monitoring,
entertainment and many more applications.
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4. What InfoValueTV solutions are available?
InfoValueTV™ solutions are a series of state-of-the-art
turnkey solutions that encapsulate InfoValue QuickVideo™ powerful
video streaming functionality with industry specific know-how and
integrations. Solutions include:
- InfoValue BizTV™ for corporate communications
- InfoValue KeynoteTV™ for distance learning and interactive
conventions
- InfoValue SuiteTV™ for hospitality in-room entertainment
- InfoValue SimulcastTV™ for capturing and reproduction of
large venue events
- InfoValue SurveyTV™ for monitoring and surveillance over
large networks
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5. What is in the InfoValue QuickVideo suite
of products?
The primary platform modules of InfoValue QuickVideo™
include:
- QuickVideo OnDemand™ -- delivering interactive, on-demand
streaming
- QuickVideo Multicast™ -- delivering TV-like video broadcasts
- QuickVideo Archive with ClipCreator™ -- archiving and publishing
video assets
- QuickVideo Distributed Cache™ -- distributing and caching
broadband content for distributed deployments
- QuickVideo Player™ -- playing video-on-demand and multicast
streaming video
- QuickVideo API™ -- providing programming interface for
application development
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6. What is the end user's experience like?
InfoValue QuickVideo™ and InfoValueTV provide compelling
interactive features and rich viewing experiences to users. When
viewing on-demand content, users can play, pause, resume, seek,
stop, fast forward, and fast rewind the videos with simple mouse
clicks or remote control buttons. Users can browse and search for
the desired video content based on titles, thumbnails, categories,
description, and many more attributes that are database and web
friendly.
When viewing broadcast video, users can channel surf with channel
up/down or channel jumping based on an informative program guide.
When equipped with Network PVR, users can instantly play back previous
video regardless of whether it was broadcast a few seconds ago,
a few hours ago, or even further in the past.
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7. What streaming formats does InfoValue
QuickVideo support?
InfoValue QuickVideo™, with its format agnostic architecture,
supports most standard video formats, such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4,
HDTV, Motion JPEG and Microsoft Windows Media. InfoValue QuickVideo™
comes with seamlessly integrated encoders and decoders and also
has the flexibility to interoperate with additional encoders and
decoders through a set of well-defined interfaces.
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8. Over which networks and protocols can
InfoValue QuickVideo guarantee streaming quality?
InfoValue QuickVideo™ guarantees streaming quality
over networks including Fast/Gigabit Ethernets, satellite, xDSL,
cable modems, and cable networks. For maximum openness and interoperability,
InfoValue QuickVideo™ supports many standard IP protocols,
packet formats and definitions, such as RTSP, RTP, Raw UDP, ISMA,
SAP, SDP, ISMA, as well as Windows media streaming. For the most
challenging requirements, InfoValue QuickVideo™ also implements
InfoValue’s patented QuickVideo STreaming Protocol (QVSTP)
for dynamic and error-free streaming
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9. What about performance and reliability?
InfoValue QuickVideo™ delivers unparalleled streaming
performance based on InfoValue’s proprietary technologies
such as the “I/O Tunneling” optimization. For example,
a standard Pentium PC server can stream up to 960Mbps of on-demand
throughput over one Gigabit NIC, or more than 90% of the aggregate
bandwidth of multiple Gigabit NIC’s. Combining the leading
performance with the need only of standard hardware, InfoValue QuickVideo™
delivers highly attractive cost performance to its customers.
InfoValue QuickVideo™ also incorporates innovative server
clustering to allow multiple video servers to function as a single
system, share content storage, increase aggregate throughput, and
enhance system fault-tolerance. When a video server within a QuickVideo
Cluster fails, streams are automatically failed over to other video
servers and then are immediately continued from their points of
interruption.
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10. What are InfoValue QuickVideo management
capabilities?
InfoValue QuickVideo™ provides comprehensive content
management features, including content ingestion, trick play indexing,
publishing, conditional access, usage tracking, and content distribution.
The content distribution, a crucial component of efficient and scalable
distributed architectures, employs a combination of intelligent
features including scheduled push, on-demand pull, priority scheduling,
resource allocation, and persistent transfer.
InfoValue QuickVideo™ facilitates many powerful and convenient
operational features, such as adding & configuring servers,
adding & configuring multicast channels and programs with automatic
scheduling, controlling the recording and network PVR of multicast
programs, announcing program schedule dynamically, and publishing
video content as a video clip database. All control and operations
can be done via a centralized, browser based remote console.
InfoValue QuickVideo™ administers strong system management
including network/storage bandwidth allocation, security, streaming
activity monitoring and logging, system alert, and system health
check.
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11. What are the principal advantages of
InfoValueTV and InfoValue QuickVideo?
In summary:
- Standards-based, high quality videos
- High performance
- Incrementally and independently scalable
- Open and modularized architecture
- Compelling streaming functionality
- Comprehensive management
- Low total cost of ownership
- Proven, reliable, scalable
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