The Niagara Pro is designed for enterprise IT professionals, professional studios, broadcasters, cable head-ends, ISPs, and a plethora of other professional needs. The Niagara Pro is ideal for Internet TV, webcasting, video archiving, and streaming training videos. This powerful system is an excellent choice as the high-end solution for video capture to file for archiving, as well as repurposing video for Internet and Intranet distribution.

The Niagara Pro capture engine is based on ViewCast® Osprey® Video software drivers and professional capture hardware. For over a decade, professionals in search of exceptional quality — from broadcasters to multimedia producers who need 24 hour-a-day, 7 day-a-week performance — have relied on Osprey Video for capturing and streaming content over the Internet.

The Niagara Pro is a professional rack-mountable streaming media appliance designed for high-quality, high-resolution video capturing and streaming. This dual-channel encoder features three EZStream® buttons, which are pre-programmable using the Niagara configuration Web interface. This unique feature allows users to create custom encoding profiles, or use pre-defined encoding profiles, and execute those profiles by simply pressing a single button on the front panel of the Niagara Pro.

The Niagara Pro front panel includes a video confidence monitor, which is selectable by input channel, or can be set to automatically cycle between input channels giving a constant view of the input source video. Niagara Pro also features SDI, S-Video, and composite video inputs with the benefit of embedded SDI, AES-EBU, and balanced and unbalanced audio inputs.

With power to spare, Niagara Pro can deliver two channels of full D1 high-quality streaming video. Niagara Pro features Digital SimulStream, allowing multiple streams from a single channel input. This provides the ability to simultaneously stream multiple resolutions at multiple data rates in multiple streaming formats!

FEATURES
Advanced setup and profiles allow experienced users to customize configurations.
EASE Menus allow basic encode/setup for novice users from the front panel interface.
USB ports allow easy installation of software upgrades, encoding profiles, and for transfer of archive files.
Client management software (Niagara SCX Pro) and Web-based software (Niagara SCX Pro Web Interface tool) is included.

SPECIFICATIONS
Video Input: SDI, S-Video, Composite
Audio Input: Unbalanced stereo (2 x BNC), Balanced stereo (2 x XLR), SDI Embedded, AES/EBU
2 USB ports
Video encoding formats supported: Windows Media®, RealVideo®, MPEG-4, Flash® (file) and AVI
(2) 1-gigabit Ethernet port