ce. They're great and it was an easy install. I looked at Videofurnace an=
d Vbrick Ethernetv when but decided on Videofurnace for various reasons. I=
'm in Illinois too so the good thing about Videofurnace was that they're in=
the north suburbs, not too far away so support has been great. Northweste=
rn University is their biggest customer I think and I got a chance to see t=
heir setup on campus. Snapstream also came out with an enterprise class vi=
deo distribution/video on demand type system that looks really promising.
The biggest thing you need to keep in mind with any of these IP based syste=
ms is managing the multicast traffic. You have got to have multicast aware=
network switching from end to end.
Thanks
Jomar McDonald
Director of Technology
The Frances Xavier Warde School
751 N. State St.
Chicago, IL=A0 60654
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Subject: Head-End / Closed Circuit Video Distribution
Anyone have any experience with deploying a head-end video distribution
unit on their campus? As a boarding school , we have Comcast cable run
directly to campus faculty residences and dorm commons, and we have no
control over the content provided. We would like a central feed from
which we can choose from cable, satellite, or digital broadcast, and
distribute them across campus with digital signage and select security
cameras on the unused channels, without the need for a set-top box at
ever T.V. (similar to what a hotel or condominium complex offers). =20
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Dave Aykroid
Director of Information Technology
Lake Forest Academy
1500 W. Kennedy Rd.
Lake Forest IL 60045
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