[AG-TECH] Have we looked at vBrick?

Brian Chee chee at hawaii.edu
Tue May 22 15:45:29 CDT 2001


Not bad...the Optivision units are in the same price range on higher
education discount.

/brian chee


University of Hawaii at Manoa
Department of Information and Computer Sciences
Advanced Network Computing Laboratory (ANCL)
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Brian J.S. Chee, CNE/CNI
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On Tue, 22 May 2001, Gurcharan S. Khanna wrote:

> hi,
>
> i spoke with Vbrick recently and they let me know that they had a "special"
> price for Internet 2 institutions. E.g.,
>
> Vbrick Kit 2 MPEG-2
> (2) vbrick model 6200 encoder/decoder plus software
> (2) pixcam cameras and (2) microphones
>
> special price: $14,995.
>
> i think the list price for a single encoder/decoder box is about $5-6K (but
> don't quote me on that).
>
> [they also wanted me to give them a list of contacts at I2 sites--i declined...]
>
> -gurcharan
>
> ps i'd be happy to fax anyone the flyer they left me that spells all this out.
>
> --- Robert Olson wrote:
> At 02:11 PM 5/22/2001 -0500, Bill Nickless wrote:
> >Tim Ward of NWU mentioned vBrick on another email list.  They make
> >self-contained boxes that have Ethernets and NTSC jacks on them, which do
> >MPEG-2 encoding and decoding.
>
> Pretty cool. Price??
> --- end of quote ---
>




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