A new company called BurstPoint Networks has come onto the scene to offer former Starbak customers – and anybody else that wants to be in the pictures – with what executives say is a highly scalable, integrated corporate video solution.

The company today makes its official debut and unveils its first product, the BurstPoint Video Communication Platform, which it describes as a fully integrated scalable end-to-end enterprise solution that enables organizations to capture, distribute, manage, view and track usage of video. It can be used for everything from allowing a CEO to record and distribute a corporate video to employees or shareholders, to supporting training efforts, enabling weekly staff meetings, and delivering messages via digital signs.

Tom Racca, BurstPoint’s president and CEO, tells TMCnet that the VCP leverages some of Starbak’s technology, but is an entirely new product in terms of hardware and offers some other new capabilities. BurstPoint acquired technology, patents, and sales and engineering talent from Starbak, which is now out of business after going through Chapter 11, says Racca.

While the Starbak architecture offered a good, scalable corporate video solution – maybe the best in the industry at the time, he adds, BurstPoint is taking that a step further and adding fault tolerance through appliances and hot-swap drives to ensure continued operations for mission-critical applications.

The BurstPoint VCP, which began shipping this summer, includes a handful of components. The BurstPoint VCP Manager is the portal from which users can create, manage, and view video content. In addition to being the interface through which users can publish and distribute both live and recorded video content from a variety of sources, the VCP Manager can be used to assign user privileges to certain content; create and update playlists for displays on digital signage; collect and analyze usage data; produce reports; and manage system updates. The BurstPoint VCP Encoder, meanwhile, connects to any video source and converts the video for streaming. BurstPoint VCP Conference Point can capture streaming video from videoconferencing systems and synchronize video with live PowerPoint slides. The BurstPoint VCP Delivery Node, a key part of the architecture, provides local serving of video streams. It was designed to work within existing WAN/LAN networks, offers intelligent routing, redundancy, and support for on-demand caching. Meanwhile, the set-top box-sized BurstPoint VCP Display Engine allows the solution to work in JPEG and HD digital signage applications.

BurstPoint also expects to announce in short order a relationship with a CDN provider that will enable its customers to have virtual delivery nodes on their video networks that they can pay for on an as-needed basis. Racca explains that the CDN solution will be an integrated component of the BurstPoint Manager.