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Avigilon White Paper: Record Locally. View Centrally. Manage Remotely.

Government & Military, Healthcare, Security & Surveillance, Video Surveillance / By Andy Newbom / December 30, 2019 December 30, 2019

Challenges Video surveillance is essential for security, and active monitoring of that surveillance is necessary to manage risks. We asked professionals about their organizations’ use of this technology, and found the vast majority of business are underutilizing surveillance and monitoring. As Forbes Insights found in a recent study, many organizations underutilize video surveillance in their …

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Solve Support Headaches Remotely With Remote Management

Business Continuity, News, Security & Surveillance, Video Surveillance / By Andy Newbom / November 4, 2019 November 4, 2019

Now all Shield | Key Professional and Enterprise NVRs have remote management built in. When your customers or users report an issue with their video surveillance system the clock starts ticking. They want instant support and fixes. The first step in any successful support troubleshooting process is to determine what the actual problem is. You …

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Network Segmentation For Video Surveillance Systems

Security & Surveillance, Video Surveillance / By Andy Newbom / October 14, 2019 October 14, 2019

Designing a robust video surveillance system is often full of traps and pitfalls that can leave an integrator frustrated with both performance and overall functionality of the surveillance system. While engineers typically design the VMS platform in a simplified network infrastructure, real-life deployments are anything but simple. Based on the scale, expected growth, and level …

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Hikvision, Dahua Technology Among Chinese Companies Added to U.S. Government Blacklist

Security & Surveillance, Video Surveillance / By Andy Newbom / October 10, 2019 October 10, 2019

The Trump administration has added 28 more Chinese organizations to its entity list, which forbids American companies from selling their products to foreign companies without government permission. After banning American companies from doing business with Chinese tech company Huawei, the Commerce Department announced Monday that it will blacklist another 28 Chinese organizations, including two giants in the video …

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Arxys Validates Ocularis Enterprise 5.7 ONSSI

Security & Surveillance, Video Surveillance / By Andy Newbom / May 3, 2019 October 1, 2019

Ocularis is OnSSI’s innovative and cost effective open platform Video Management Software (VMS) designed to enhance your security while simplifying your daily workload. From convenience stores to citywide deployments and everything in between, Ocularis can scale up to accommodate an infinite number of cameras to match your growing system needs. Ocularis lets you record video …

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Arxys Joins Milestone System Builder Program

News, Security & Surveillance, Storage, Video Surveillance / By Andy Newbom / April 5, 2019 November 4, 2019

Arxys’ GPU hardware accelerated NVRs with Milestone XProtect Inside, deliver breakthrough performance to power advanced video analytics and forensic grade video recording San Diego, CA/COPENHAGEN – April 05, 2019. Arxys announces that they are now a Verified Milestone System Builder. The Arxys Shield | Key NVRs with built-in GPUs deliver impressive performance improvements at lower cost …

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Scalability In Video Surveillance Systems

Government & Military, Healthcare, High Availability, Law Enforcement, Network Attached Storage, Network Storage, Security & Surveillance, Storage, Video Surveillance / By Andy Newbom / March 15, 2019 March 15, 2019

Scalability is a growing focus in today’s video surveillance market. The explosion of new IP Cameras, IoT devices, access control, audio devices and more is driving intense new scalability requirements for video surveillance systems. And the mainstreaming of Full HD resolution (1080P) and 15fps and higher recording is being exacerbated by a seemingly endless march …

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What’s New in Milestone XProtect 2018 R3?

Security & Surveillance, Video Surveillance / By Andy Newbom / December 20, 2018 July 23, 2019

Milestone XProtect 2018 R3 introduced some strong new features for advanced video surveillance installations looking to deliver comprehensive security. How audio adds value to your video Surveillance Installation While a picture is worth a thousand words, the spoken word can be worth much more. Regardless of the number of megapixels captured by a surveillance camera, video alone …

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Storage And Bandwidth Savings With Codec H.265 vs h.264 in Video Surveillance

Cannabis, Security & Surveillance, Video Surveillance / By Andy Newbom / October 1, 2018 October 1, 2018

In Video Surveillance the codecs that control the compression of video streams utilized by video surveillance cameras have tremendous impacts on the entire video surveillance system. They affect the storage capacity, network bandwidth and overall system performance. They are the single most important technological aspect of any video surveillance system, and thankfully they keep getting …

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ONSSI Ocularis Leads the VMS Pack

Government & Military, Healthcare, Security & Surveillance, Video Surveillance / By Andy Newbom / August 27, 2018 August 27, 2018

Ocularis VMS from ONSSI From convenience stores to citywide deployments and everything in between, Ocularis can scale up to accommodate an infinite number of cameras to match your growing system needs. Ocularis lets you record video from both analog cameras and integrated IP network cameras. And it can become your Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) platform, …

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