The VBrick Distributed Media Engine (DME) provides dynamic live stream creation, bandwidth optimization, and automated and intelligent video-on-demand (VoD) sharing and prepositioning. A typical deployment has one or more central DMEs connected to edge DMEs. A single stream of media from a central site can support tens of thousands of live views and then be stored locally for on-demand access by thousands more. Combined with VBrick Rev, an enterprise video management platform, the DME becomes a powerful, integrated component that intelligently and automatically delivers borderless live and stored content to users.
The DME also uses the DME Mesh, which is a set of technologies that provides a self-managing, self-optimizing ability to share, distribute, and cache VoD content Mesh capabilities also enable video content location across DMEs and first-request caching. This capability allows administrators to selectively preposition content, and enables DMEs to locate and pull that requested content from the closest DME on the network, using bandwidth and storage only when necessary. Focusing on these operational savings is a vital part of an eCDN that allows you to make high-quality video available to massive, geographically dispersed audiences, all without overloading your WAN. Plus, the DME supports video ingest and recording for a variety of endpoints, including popular smartphones and media tablets.