Lucent Digital Video Teams with VBrick Systems

Lucent Technologies (http://www.lucent.com/ldv) made a deal with VBrick Systems ( http://www.vbrick.com), a supplier ofvideo networking solutions, to enable Lucent Digital Video to provide its customers with MPEG videoconferencing and streaming video.

Under the terms of the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement, VBrick's MPEG product line will be marketed under the Lucent VIDEORunner product family name. They will provide encoding and decoding solutions for broadband video applications.

The VIDEORunner product is a multifunction video appliance that delivers full screen MPEG video over a network and acts as an MPEG decoder that detects multi-cast streams.It also includes conference scheduling software, remote administrationtools, desktop video player and streaming server software.

"Our customers have been looking for low cost, mid-range video solutions,"said Andreas Papanicolaou, President of Lucent Digital Video. "With thisagreement, we now can provide complete digital video solutions from HighDefinition Television, to interactive MPEG video conferencing, to high-qualityIP streaming video to the desktop."

"The future is clearly broadband networks," said Rich Mavrogeanes,President and CEO of VBrick Systems. "Customers want to deploy high-qualityvideo within the networks they have today, but their choices have been limitedto technologies that were optimized for either low bandwidth dial-upconnections or are expensive high bandwidth broadcast products. VBrick'ssystems are optimized for the middle ground, and operate over IP, ATM, T1/E1,satellite and microwave networks. Lucent's global reach, first class supportinfrastructure, and complementary products will help give more customers thevideo networking experience they have been asking for."

The VIDEORunner line is available now, says Lucent.