Epiphan Partners with Genetec to Provide Monitors and Control Room Security Display Recording

Aug. 31, 2011 - PRLog -- Epiphan Broadcaster Lite converts control room and other system displays into camera sources for Omnicast security recording systems
August 31, 2011, Ottawa, Canada -- Epiphan Systems Inc. announced that VGA Broadcaster Lite™ is the first product to be integrated as a VGA/DVI/HDMI display to H.264 camera source converter for Genetec’s Omnicast 4.7 video surveillance solution.
VGA Broadcaster Lite enables Omnicast customers to convert control room display sources, or any other equipment with a standard display source, to appear as security cameras to the Omnicast security recording system.
VGA Broadcaster Lite passively and non-obtrusively intercepts the display source without requiring any software or hardware changes to the display sources.  VGA Broadcaster Lite converts the VGA, DVI, or HDMI display source to appear as an H.264 camera source stream to the Omnicast security recording system.
“We are pleased that a number of joint customers and partners encouraged Epiphan and Omnicast to work together and bring an integrated solution to market so quickly and efficiently”, says Mike Sandler, CEO Epiphan Systems Inc.
“Genetec has integrated VGA Broadcaster-Lite as an H.264 hardware encoder – camera source converter streaming hardware appliance with Omnicast.” saysMorgan Pasnon, Senior Technology Alliance Manager,  Genetec.  “Omnicast 4.7 now includes built-in support for Epiphan’s VGA Broadcaster Lite”.
Typical applications for the integration of VGA Broadcaster Lite into Omnicast include:

Recording control room operator actions and responses to alarms for later review and training purposes
Recording multiple computer displays, speciality equipment monitors for SCADA, plant or critical infrastructure monitoring equipment with displays as if they were Network IP camera sources

About Omnicast
Omnicast™ is the IP video surveillance system of the Security Center, Genetec’s unified security platform. Based on the open architecture, Omnicast offers high-system flexibility and comes with built-in high-system availability and security features. Omnicast includes scalability and redundancy features, and is easy to setup and use.
About VGA Broadcaster Lite
VGA Broadcaster Lite is Epiphan Systems' compact low-cost Ethernet appliance for streaming a VGA, DVI, or HDMI source and audio source over the LAN or Internet using H.264, MPEG4, or MJPEG compression at resolutions up to 1600x1200 and frame rates up to 30 frames per second. It is used in a wide variety of applications, including streaming presentations, podcasts, webinars, lectures, control system displays, medical equipment displays, and other VGA/DVI/HDMI sources.
For more information on VGA Broadcaster Lite, please visit:

/products/broadcasting/vga-broadcaster-lite/ (http://www.epiphan.com/products/broadcasting/vga-broadcas...)
VGA Broadcaster Lite Integrates Operator Console Display Stream into Genetec’s Omnicast Security System  (http://www.epiphan.com/solutions_new/?arid=1120)

For more information on Genetec’s Omnicast 4.7, please visit:

http://www.genetec.com/ (http://www.genetec.com/)
Omnicast Brochure (PDF) (http://www.genetec.com/Lists/Brochures/Genetec - Omnicast IP Video Surveillance.pdf)
Recent Genetec blog post about the integration: http://blog.genetec.com/post/2011/08/03/recording-an-operator-screen.aspx (http://blog.genetec.com/post/2011/08/03/recording-an-operator-screen.aspx)

About Epiphan SystemsEpiphan Systems Inc. ("Epiphan") develops, markets, manufactures and supports an innovative line of VGA/DVI/HDMI display and video signal source processing products. The products are proven, ideal solutions for capturing, recording, broadcasting, streaming, display and printing of virtually any video source.Epiphan products are used in a wide range of applications such as education, training, simulation, medical imaging, computing, security, and transportation applications, where capturing, processing, recording and sharing of high resolution VGA/DVI/HDMI displays and video sources outputs are critical to effective communication.Epiphan is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada with a sales office in the USA and authorized resellers throughout the world.For more information, please visit www.epiphan.com (/)To book an appointment please click here to contact Epiphan Media Relations (http://www.epiphan.com/company/media_contact.php).

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Epiphan Systems Inc.("Epiphan") develops, markets and supports an innovative line of VGA/DVI/HDMI video display frame grabbers, multi media display broadcast streaming systems and multi media display recording systems.