Video Furnace (News - Alert), a provider of enterprise-class IP (Internet Protocol) video solutions, announced that its IP video distribution system of version 4.3 has received a Certificate of Networthiness (CoN) for Department of Defense (DoD) U.S. Army installations.

 

With CoN, U.S. army commanders will be able to use Video Furnace’s IP video distribution system across the DOD for research, development, test, evaluation, training and military exercises.

 

According to Video Furnace, its IP video distribution system of version 4.3 is the only Army-certified IP video system. The CoN now places the Video Furnace system on the Army Authorized Products List/Army Valid CoN list.  

 

The Video Furnace IP video distribution system version 4.3 facilitates organizations in every industry to improve communication, enhance collaboration and distribute content in a secure manner over their existing high-speed IP networks.

 

With the Video Furnace IP video distribution system, organizations can deliver live and recorded video, including high-definition/H.264 over networked TVs, plasma screens, set-top boxes, desktops or laptops.

 

Key features of the Video Furnace IP video distribution system include support for all operating systems; does not require any separate hardware encoders/decoders or platform-specific players or any plug-ins or even end-user training; has the capability to support thousands or millions of simultaneous viewers; content in the system is encoded in real-time; output streams are fully MPEG 1/2/4 compliant at bit rates from 300 Kbps to 12 Mbps; and all streams are FIPS-197 (Federal Information Processing Standards) compliant and AES (advanced encryption standard) encrypted at 256 bits.  

 

The U.S. Army tested the Video Furnace IP video distribution system for five years at WSMR, before it awarded the CoN. WSMR is part of the Developmental Test Command that reports to the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command and is designated as an activity within the Department of Defense major range and test facility base.

 

The testing of the Video Furnace’s IP video distribution system included reviews of technical product documentation, industry research and as well as interviews with Video Furnace product technical support and Army users and administrators of the application, said the company.

 

Anthony Sullivan, information systems technology specialist with the Systems Engineering Development Directorate at the U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range, said, “Now Directors of Information Management at Department of Defense Army installations are able to install the Video Furnace system on Army test evaluation command servers if configured to comply with all Army and DOD guidelines.”