Viewpoint VBX™ Applications

Viewpoint VBX system configurations can be used for a variety of enterprise video distribution and communications applications. It can also be used for interoffice communications and provides wide area network trunking between facilities.

Applications that VBX can be used for include:

  • Business TV
  • Multipoint Video Conferencing
  • Telejustice & Remote Arraignment
  • Telemedicine
  • Distance Learning
  • Education
  • Corporate Communications
  • Security & Surveillance
  • Financial Services
  • Video Switching
  • Network Gateway

Application Detail Breakdown
A detailed breakdown of some VBX applications are shown below:

1. TeleJustice - TeleJustice is a mechanism for involvement. In the judicial context, "TeleJustice" means using two-way interactive video for conducting judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings.

  • Secure video visitation
  • Secure and safe remote video arraignment
  • Reduced prisoner moving and handling issues
  • Video access between defendant and attorneys
  • Prison video monitoring
  • Video communications between security guard stations
  • Prison access to medical specialists

2. Telemedicine - Telemedicine is the delivery of health care and the exchange of health care information across distances using telecommunications technology. It can include the transfer of basic patient information over computer networks (medical informatics), the transfer of images such as radiographs, CT scans, MRIs, Ultrasound studies, pathology images, video images of endoscopic or other procedures, patient interviews and examinations, consultations with medical specialists, and health care educational activities.

VBX can be use in Telemedicine applications for:

  • Remote patient consultation
  • Home health monitoring
  • Specialist services to remote clinics
  • Doctor on-call via videoconferencing
  • Tap into industry resources (specialists, information)
  • Serve the needs of disadvantaged patients
  • Healthcare worker training
  • Hold face-to-face multi-party administrative meetings without leaving your office

3. Security & Surveillance - Video Security & Surveillance is the process of monitoring local or remote video, audio and other security feeds.

  • On-demand dialup (WAN) video monitoring
  • Video guard tours
  • Video escort to parking areas
  • Monitor access to secure or sensitive areas
  • Traffic flow monitoring
  • Gate access video
  • Computer based intelligent surveillance

4. Financial Services - VBX is ideally suited for applications in financial institutions because network video traffic cannot compromise their mission critical LAN/WAN data traffic. Specifically, realtime stock & options quotes must take priority over video on the network which consumes large amounts of bandwidth. VBX does not touch your LAN so your mission critical data is not compromised.

  • Business television distribution (CNN, Reuters, Bloomberg)
  • Keep offices up to date on your company's services
  • Face-to-face meetings with remote offices and branches
  • Instant access to experts for rapid decision making
  • Simplify training
  • Remote video kiosks
  • Video network management for easy control, maintenance and troubleshooting

5. Manufacturing - VBX is a great tool for manufacturing operations to enhance corporate communications, simplify training, and enable business TV feeds to the desktop or factory floor.

  • Efficient design team meetings
  • Identify manufacturing issues, and find solutions fast
  • Work with Engineering, Management, Support and Sales right from the manufacturing floor
  • Simplify Training the Sales staff
  • Factory floor monitoring to ensure quality standards
  • Close contact with suppliers for just in time inventory and problem resolution
  • Confer with specialists from anywhere in the world

6. Distance Learning - Many corporations have found that training employees is one of their largest expenses -- and that accommodations and travel to off-site classes can amount to the largest share of training expenses. To keep costs down, as well as to minimize the time that employees are away from work, corporations are turning to online courses that employees can complete at their desks, on their own schedule.

  • Allow students to interact with remote classrooms
  • Deliver specialty classes to students that previously were out of reach - due
  • to cost or shortage of instructors.
  • Tap into industry resources (specialists, information)
  • Allow high school students to take college preparatory classes
  • Serve the needs of disadvantaged youths (disabled, sick, etc.)
  • Efficient teacher training and staff development
  • Reduce administrative travel expenses
  • Improve effeciencies of corporate training
  • Improve productivity keeping employees at their desk and working.
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