Audio visual engineering - IP video expertise

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    • Telepresence
    • Room and Tabletop
    • PC, Mobile
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  • Ballrooms, Auditoriums
  • Classrooms, Training
  • TV Studios, Video Editing
• Enterprise Video
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    • LAN Provisioning
    • Cloud Architecture
    • Managed Services
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    • Encryption
    • Access, Authentication
    • Firewall
• Display
  • Digital Signage
  • Retail
  • Events, Shows, Staging
• Telemedicine
  • Surgical Video
  • Tele-Care, Outpatients
  • Hospital Conferencing

Vpulse is the consulting and engineering practice run by Chip Ruhnke. You can see Chip's employment history on LinkedIn. But that won't show you the individual clients and projects that benefited from Chip's lifetime of work in leading edge video and AV systems.

Chip sold the video cameras to Bell Labs for the invention of the videoconference codec, and the corporate video industry was born. Chip pioneered videoconferencing, streaming, and QoS video internetworking. Best practices have evolved, prices have dropped, and the business argument for enterprise video is compelling.

Chip is schooled in business management (BS) and corporate communications (MA), keen on video solutions that address business user needs, deliver value, and provide strategic advantage.

Field experience installing and revamping media facilities and AV projects insures that estimates are accurate, project management is efficient, systems work as planned.

Enterprise Video

• Audio/Video Solutions
  • Architectures
  • Integrations
• System/facility Design
  • Audio, Video, PC/Servers, Network
• Project Execution
  • Installation and Configuration
  • Procurement
  • Support resources

AV dealers and IT integrators sell what they are familiar with, but enterprise video requires AV and IT to work in harmony, observing best practices in both AV system design and IT deployment. Video applications are logically integrated into business processes and unified communications, while physically integrated with desktops, AV systems, and your network.

Can you expect an AV consultant to provide value-engineering, to create a user experience that improves productivity, to offer an evolving application that may expand over time? They like new construction, boiler-plate standardization, older product models, and a limited engagement; on to the next construction project, often before users scale the learning curve.

Can your enterprise software provider or telephone vendor integrate visual collaboration and AV facilities management? ERP tools do not account for new advantages you derive from audio/video communications, until customized. PBX's don't work with videoconference dial plans, until customized.

Is your local AV vendor doing top quality work? Is it worthwhile having your IT staff taken from their other tasks to try to learn video best practices? Likely not. Vpulse is often asked to clean-up prior installs making them work better, and create documentation you should have.

Vpulse can take on a project, or assist with an individual task or upgrade:

• AV design/drawings/drafting
  • AutoCAD suitable for construction
  • Virtual block diagrams for diagrammatic understanding
  • Control system design
  • Budget, feature set, scope of work
• Installation
  • Neat and clean set-ups, rewiring, project management
  • Repairs, reprogramming
  • Rack wiring, in-wall wiring, device installation (projectors, screens, speakers)
• PC/multimedia
  • Server, workstation, laptop, and mobile
  • PC parts, operating systems, software
  • Maintenance, repairs, remote monitoring tools
• User training
  • System documentation, user notes
  • Video delivered training-on-demand
  • On-site class, coaching
• Software planning
  • Database, user interface, asset management, accounting
  • Unified communications, user authorization, security
• Support
  • Outsourced help desk
  • Remote monitoring, maintenance
  • Troubleshooting, repair
• Project Management
  • Product sourcing, critical-path planning, problem anticipation
  • System certification and testing, vendor sign-off
  • Value analysis: ROI, TCO, technology roadmap

We know the many ways an AV project can go wrong. We help you plan ahead, or call us to jump in and lend a hand when you need it.

Disclaimer: The above is not intended to be legal advice, nor is anything else on this website. Consult your lawyer, or consult ours.

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