Example 2: Your VBrick will stream at 300 Kbps to webcast school sports.  There will be 10,000 viewers who will view for 2 hours (120 minutes).  A 50,000 GB package will support 19 such events. Each event will cost $1,544.95. The cost per viewer is approx $0.15.  Note: If the school charges only $1.00 to view a sporting event, they make a profit of $0.85 per viewer, or $8,500 per event. They break even after four events. After 19 events they have a profit of $160,000 (19 events x 10,000 viewers x $1.00 per viewer = $190,000 - $30,000 cost = $160,000).

Example3: Your VBrick will stream at 200 Kbps to webcast live classroom lectures to remote students.  There will be 50 viewers who will view for 60 minutes. A 500 GB package would support 116 such lectures. Each lecture would cost $7.51, or about $0.15 per viewer.

Example 4: Your VBrick will stream at 1,000 Kbps (1 Mbps) to support scientific investigations from a remote location.  There will be only 2 viewers who will view continuously for 30 days (30 days x 24 hours x 60 minutes = 43,200 minutes). A 1000 GB package will more than support this, and the event would cost $926.97 or about $463.48 per viewer.

If you underestimate your bandwidth requirement (e.g. you expect 1,000 viewers but there are actually 1,500), your streaming video does not just suddenly stop in the middle of your event! Most providers will simply bill you for any excess bandwidth used beyond your contracted amount.

One way to look at cost:  With gasoline at $3 per gallon and using a car that gets 20 miles per gallon, it costs about $0.15 per mile to drive your car.  Streaming video bandwidth costs less and is much more rapid, efficient, convenient, and green!