Knowledge is Power...and as we transition into a new millennium with information overload reaching critical mass, the delivery of that knowledge will become a vital function in the business and education arenas.

With highly competitive, fragmenting, and virtual workplaces, training and empowering employees is more important than ever.

And education has become ubiquitous; gone is the paradigm of an instructor-led classroom filled with book-bound students.

Getting the right informational or educational message to the right audience at the right time is what will propel organizations into the twenty-first century. That's what streaming media technology is all about. And nobody knows the power of streaming media better than Roscor Corporation.

What is Streaming Media?
Streaming media refers to the way in which video, audio and data content are "streamed" to viewers across an IP network, like a corporate intranet or the Internet. Streaming media represents the new infrastructure through which training content is reliably delivered, viewed, and comprehended by either an individual on-demand and interactively, or by geographically-dispersed groups of people.

First, video is encoded into MPEG format at the appropriate bit rate. It's then loaded onto a server or servers, distributed, or striped across all content servers to provide all viewers interactive and consistent performance. Programs can then be scheduled and multicasted to groups, or viewed individually and interactively. Live programs can also be encoded in real-time and multicasted as well. Streaming media applications are as varied as your mission and imagination: video-on-demand, employee training programs, corporate communications, distance learning opportunities, knowledge management and delivery, computer-based multimedia interactive training, and much more.

Utilizing streaming media technologies, interactive desktop communications and computer-based corporate training will take your organization light years beyond traditional training or education methods.
Why? Because streaming media allows you to deliver powerful media to a geographically dispersed audience to employees or students with real-time immediacy, impactful interactive content, and measurable results of audience com- prehension and interest level.

The Benefits of Streaming Media
It's fast, efficient, and cost-effective. With streaming media, you'll be able to train more people with fewer instructors, deliver a consistent and cohesive message to your entire organization, reduce your costs, and raise your organizational efficiency through better training and knowledge management. To promote retention and comprehension of the content, streaming media offers high-quality, interactive multimedia audio and video, as well as embedded "metadata".

Your streaming media is computer-based, so content management and customization is easy and manageable. And because a potentially diverse and dispersed audience is dealing interactively with the virtual instructor or content server, real-time feedback and results measurement is possible, so youÍll be able to validate effectiveness and modify your programming on the spot.

The Roscor Connection
As might be expected, desktop training solutions, like streaming media, are not black boxes, but are comprised of hardware, software, service, and support completely integrated systems. That's where Roscor comes in.

Our world-class telecommunications and networking expertise and experience will provide you with the right solution for the right application. Because we're specialists in electronic media and information technologies (we've been at it for over 30 years), we can help you design the best streaming media system and develop the appropriate integrated training or education environment to meet your objectives.

Because Roscor sells and services the entire spectrum of video and audio hardware, and computer hardware, software, and networking equipment, and because we are intimate with programming and content development, we can create an individualized solution that will exactly meet your needs and exceed your expectations.

Whether it's software products, networking hardware, streaming media servers, distance learning centers, contracted technical support services, or WAN carriage, Roscor is your streaming media partner.