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ASTA Announces SkyWire Video V2.0—code named “Venus”

With the popularity of the Internet, the proliferation of CCTV systems, the fast spread of Wi-Fi and cellular wireless modems, and the ever increasing demand for more security, ASTA has developed a new generation of SkyWire Video technology to take advantage of these converging technologies. The goal to securely support any video input, and any audio input, from anywhere make them available on any platform and device, with a highly secure connection—either wireless or “wired,” using MPEG-4 Video with audio options for outstanding performance.  PocketPC devices using WiFi connections should see frame rates of 4-10fps. 

SkyWire Video also supports advanced motion detection, and records video to hard disk using MPEG-4 compression to reduce disk space requirements. E-mail alerts can notify remote users of detected events.  Remote clients can play back recorded video, or view “live” video on PC’s, cell phones, or PocketPC devices. 

SkyWire Video is designed to meet Dept. of Defense Class III requirements for maintaining the safety and security of its video streams, so customers can use remote monitoring and wireless devices with confidence.

This new generation of SkyWire Video technology is based on the concept of SkyWire Remote Channels, which allows any Video/Audio input device to be captured and the video stream to efficiently distributed in a network/Internet environment.

They key to SkyWire Remote Channels is the ability for SkyWire Capture Servers to act as a remote client to SkyWire Venus Servers, with a high level of security to assure the safety of the customers’ video, even in wireless environments. The SkyWire Venus Architecture provides a flexible and “Lego”-like building block that provides software that can capture video and audio, directly support remote clients, and securely push that video/audio to other remote Venus Servers.

Preliminary documentation can be downloaded now and access evaluation versions are available  including a server and PocketPC client that can get up to 5-10FPS with audio.

 Video Sources include:

·         Webcams or USB Cameras

·         Legacy systems connected to Video Boards

·         Existing DVR's or multiplexer-based CCTV systems.

·         HTTP Network Cameras, including Axis, Panasonic, Flexwatch, Veo, D-Link and others.

·         Video Appliances (watch for more announcements on this soon)

·         Other SkyWire Video Servers

These video sources, along with associated audio, can be securely transmitted to a number of “client” platforms and devices, including:

·         Browser Clients

·         Win32 Client

·         PocketPC C

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