ViewCast is pleased to introduce its latest innovation, the Niagara 2100.

This newest addition to ViewCast’s acclaimed line of Niagara video streaming appliances offers exceptional ease-of-use, and includes many of the same features found in other professional-grade Niagara streaming appliances. The Niagara 2100 is the lowest cost streaming appliance on the market today.

The Niagara 2100 enables easy, affordable entry into streaming and is well suited for a wide variety of uses including Webcasting city council meetings to community members and deploying executive messaging and online training for organizations. The compact, self-contained unit fits neatly into fixed installations and provides the portability and stability necessary for on-location streaming. Like all Niagara appliances, the unit features image scaling, cropping, de-interlacing, inverse telecine and closed caption rendering.

This newest Niagara encoder accepts component, Y/C (S-Video), and composite video inputs, as well as balanced and unbalanced stereo audio inputs. And, as it comes with ViewCast SimulStream® technology, it can simultaneously stream multiple resolutions at multiple data rates in Windows Media format. The unit’s front-panel display confirms the presence of audio and video, apprises the user of streaming status, and allows simultaneous activation of multiple codecs from a single “stream” button.

ViewCast’s Niagara SCX® streaming media management software is integrated into the Niagara 2100 to enable management of live video broadcasting over the Internet and to mobile devices. The software enables desktop set-up and control over Niagara streaming systems positioned throughout an enterprise or anywhere on the network. As a result, the user can instantly see the status of all networked encoders, identify active encoding sessions, and control and monitor each individual stream.

The Niagara 2100 will be available for shipping from the 23rd February 2009. Local RRP is expected to be under AUD$8,000.

For more product information visit: www.viewcast.com.