California School District: The school district, spread over a large urban area, had been using point-to-point video conferencing and already had a major investment in equipment. The video installation proven a very successful way to support inter-school conferencing. The district wanted to expand its use into video distribution and install it in a classroom setting.
The systems administrator selected the Viewpoint VBX� system because of its features and interoperability with the existing equipment. The Viewpoint VBX system was set up to deliver native-mode, high-quality video to every classroom. Inter-school communication was implemented using the VBX codec array. As an additional bonus, the VBX System Codec Manager Software made it possible for multiple users to share the school district's existing codecs, greatly expanding the functionality of the existing hardware infrastructure with no additional investment !
Texas School District: The school district, spread over an extremely large, but sparsely populated geographical area, needed to reduce the amount of time spent by personnel when traveling to meetings and training. The district needed a system that was easy to operate and which would allow people with a minimum of specialized equipment training to easily initiate and participate in large group conferences.
The Viewpoint VBX� system was selected because of its ease of use when managing ad-hoc large group conferencing. The implementation was completed within a month. Travel time was reduced as expected; an unexpected benefit was revealed when staff personnel spend the formerly lost time in development and training.
Community College: The community college, a magnet school for training students in digital and analog video production, needed a way to collect and distribute large amounts of video -- classroom curriculum material as well as student work in progress. The fundamental need was the ability to distribute video on demand -- VCR input, DVD and well as material stored on disk and CD. The school's emphasis on quality made the use of compressed digital video completely unacceptable.
The Viewpoint VBX� system was chosen because of its ability to deliver high quality analog video image data and to retrieve data from analog storage devices.
School for the Deaf: This school has been a leader in the use of video technology for communication between schools and for the capture of curriculum material, but because of the high cost of conventional solutions, the use of video equipment had been limited to the campus video center. The school wanted to extend the video facilities into the classroom; to distribute video from the library without physically distributing media and to improve the ability of students to communicate with students at other schools. The school was a poor candidate for the implementation of compressed digital video -- since most of the material included sign language, the video needed to be of good enough quality that small gestures and physical expressions were clearly visible on the receiving end.
The Viewpoint VBX� system proved to be an ideal solution. Using the existing facility wiring, the system delivers flawless NTSC television imaging. The school's existing video conferencing equipment became available on a switched basis to the entire student body and the students are now able to use video in every classroom, not just in the video center!
