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Monday, February 09, 2009

2009 marks tipping point for IP video

VBrick CEO shares his views about IP video
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Spotlight Story
2009 marks tipping point for IP video

Steve Taylor By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick
This week, we turn our focus back to video over IP (or what we call IPV) starting today with some insights provided by Vince Graziani, CEO of VBrick Systems. VBrick started to offer IPV in 1997, and has over 60,000 video appliances and products installed with over 5,000 customers. In a recent interview, Graziani shared his views about the increasing need to engineer corporate networks for video first and data second. He also shared a user case story to illustrate the business case for IPV. Read full story

Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. Larry Hettick is a principal analyst at Current Analysis.

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