Solution Types (IP Based)
Unified Collaboration and Video Conference Infrastructure
If your organization is considering a large scale deployment of HD Video conferencing or the deployment of video streams, SMS messaging, and other unified collaboration technologies, available bandwidth needs to be considered. Our first step in helping you realize your strategic vision of any IP based communication deployment is a full analysis of the network. VCA, through many years of experience, has earned a strong reputation for our ability to examine your network, recommend solutions, and oversee the implementation. We understand the unique challenges of running real-time video and deploying technologies on your mission critical network.
Our second step is to help develop the proper workflow to maximize your effort. We understand the vision for any new communications solution should be integrated directly to your business process and operations — instead of creating a disparate telecommunications island.
Proper cross pollination between IT – Web 2.0 – Voice and Video is understood at VCA. We are experts on the visual / video communication part of the UC&C triad, and we understand the overlay as well.
Digital Signage
When you need to powerfully and flexibly communicate to many people at once, a Digital Signage Solution gives you the ability to reach your audience. VCA will guide you in analyzing the needs of your organization and provide a road map for deploying the correct signage solution for your organizations specific goals. Whether you're a retail location, a corporation, or an educational facility, a digital messaging solution can prove a useful and economical tool. Our solutions are scalable from a single display to an entire building. VCA provides hosting and creation services to help you get the maximum impact.
Significant savings will be seen by replacing print with a dynamic form of communications that can be changed quickly or based on any parameter such as the time of day or the weather. The cost to produce and change the content is simple with a minimal amount of training.
VCA will work with you on creating the proper workflow for you organization – how often are updates need to convey the message – what are the critical pieces of information for each area – what are the network constrains are we living with, who is our audience. VCA will work with you to address each step to help you realize a ROI.
Streaming
Have a video that you want to broadcast but can't get it on a network or cable?
Need to train employees in another office four states away?
Want your students to have access to your lectures at home?
Video streaming allows you to leverage the power of the Internet to send you message to the world. Pre-recorded content, live events, webinars, educational content, and more can now be made available to anyone, anywhere, at any time, with a simple Internet connection. These video streams can be published for anyone to see or password protected for invite-only viewers. You become the network, supplying your content to your audiance.
VCA will help you utilize the technology you need to capture, encode, and stream over the internet. Our engineers and technicians understand the importance of your message and will design a solution to stream your content across the world.
Media Asset Management
VCA is a leader in shared storage and asset management solutions. As your business’ content creation workstations grow in number, and the size and volume of projects and files grow, you need shared storage and asset management.
Consider the risks and problems associated with inadequate shared storage and asset management, including: missing deadlines because of lack of coordination, or having to pull all-nighters for every project because your coordination and productivity is crippled by lack of properly shared systems; different procedures for every editor, piles of hard drives everywhere, firewire drives failing just when you need them most; confusion, loss of data, or having to deliver a lower-quality deliverable to your customer because you will not make the deadline otherwise.
All of these are issues that a better-shared storage and asset management system can help you get under control. Our engineers and application specialists are certified in all the major platforms for shared storage hardware and software as well as asset management. VCA features hardware platforms from Avid, Apple, AutoDesk, Rorke, EditShare, Archion, and many more. We offer shared storage SAN software from Apple XSAN, Quantum StorNext, CommandSoft FiberJet, Studio Network Solutions and MetaSan to Avid Unity Media Network. VCA is also certified at the highest levels for expert guidance, design and installation of asset management solutions, including Avid Interplay, Apple Final Cut Server, SSL Gravity, Focus ProxSys, and many more.
Life Safety / Intelligent Notification Systems
Protecting employees and students can be a challenge to facilities. Communicating important messages for public safety is now at the forefront of private and public institutions around the country. VCA provides end-to-end solutions for comprehensive life safety communications to keep you and your employees or students safe and informed.
Our system provides optimal communication escalation through customizable options, distributing the right message to the right people at the right time. By utilizing your facility’s existing data network infrastructure, VCA’s life safety systems become cost effective and easy to deploy. Our solutions are designed to interact with your existing alarm panels, display network, and monitoring systems to provide a cohesive look at your facility and enable real-time feedback and deployment of messages. Once comprehensive data is received from your alarm panels or devices, system operators are presented with pre-defined response options. Depending on the situation, these options and actions can be set in advance to send out a message without operator involvement. Messages are then executed via mass outbound communications to any or all of the available communication devices including:
- Paging Systems
- Digital Signage Systems
- Network Display Systems
- Computer Display Systems
- E-mail
- Voicemail
- SMS Text Messaging
System operators are presented with a simple graphic interface and can execute text, pre-recorded, and live messages on a moment’s notice from any networked computer. All systems include built-in assessment tools for you to fully realize the value of your investment and how the process can be refined to give optimal results.