Hello, we are looking at buying 5 of these 6200 units for a TV show. The idea would be to place them all around the country and do interviews, like you see on the nightly news. The quality must be near broadcast quality. But I understand we can't use the public internet for data transport.
What would be looking for by way of pipe, infrastructure and cost? I need numbers and info asap to get this approved. Any help is greatly appreciated.
You can do this, and many VBrick customers to exactly this. The question is "What encoding/decoding technology should I use"? A VBrick 6200 could be MPEG-2, or it could be MPEG-4. For the public Internet, you will want MPEG-4 because MPEG-2 simply requires too much bandwidth and because it would not hide transmission errors as well. As for quality, you can see various MPEG-4 rates at
www.vbrick.net. Of course, this is purely viewing on your computer screen. For two-way interactive video, you would have a VBrick at each end. One end (say your studio) would have the VBrick on an outside address while the other end could be on an "inside" address (in other words, the other end could be connected to the public Internet via conventional DSL/cable or corporate LAN).
The higher the bandwidth, the higher the quality. You can likely do very well at about 700-1000 Kbps.
For remote new gathering, you may also want to look at
http://www.vbrick.net/video/rng.asxFor more info, contact VBrick directly at 1-203-265-0044
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