Storage is a big part of IP video security and so I thought I would start a small series of video storage starting with the basics. Today we will discuss RAID. RAID has been discussed many (x4) times throughout the years but I still get questions...
Now that 802.11n is ratified we are starting to see a rush of products come to market. Of the the outdoor ones are the really interesting to me and probably to you since wireless IP cameras are mostly used outdoors where cabling is difficult...
I have been saying this for a little over a year now but someone finally started testing the theory that wireless beamforming (if done correctly) is really cool. Tom's Hardware has produced a great and seriously in depth article about beamforming and...
I was looking at the latest public RFP for a wireless IP video surveillance solution and this RFP, like most, left me wondering why the protocol has remained as it has. Mainly:
What was being asked for would require a small data center just to...
You may or may not have head of millimeter wave or E-band gigabit wireless bridges but they have been around for several years now and are quite proven. We recently installed a pair of these bridges at one of our clients and are extremely impressed by...
Wireless Mesh seems to still be misunderstood so I though I would put down a couple of pointers explaining how it works at a high level and focusing on throughput of course, we are talking about video here... Wireless mesh networks require a good amount...
I have been wanting to write about this for a while now. A distributed surveillance network is simply when you have your recording servers distributed across multiple geographic locations instead of having one central recording locaiton.
Benefits...
I am very excited to finally get to blog on the new SIW v2.0. Lately I have been reading about the development of 100Gbps Ethernet and its getting me excited. Today there are excellent VMS platforms, like Milestone Systems XProtect or ONSSI, that...
So I would first like to apologize for being out of the loop for what feels like eternity. We have been busy pushing out our new website , I was out at the Milestone MIPS '09 for a week and of course there were other less interesting things going on as...
Sorry I haven't written in so long but my new wife and I finally went on our honeymoon to South America. It was a great time. We went to a sleepy town called Buzios in Brazil and then to Buenos Aires and Mendoza in Argentina. Each city had its...
We get questions daily from integrators and end customers asking about wireless IP video surveillance and I think some get frustrated when we answer, "well....it depends" and start asking 20 questions. Wireless is a fantastic technology and perfectly...
So lets start with the basics. Many of you might already know this but it is worth recapping the different hardware pieces that make up ip networks.
There are four major hardware components:
Router
Firewall
Switch
End Node...
OK so what type of network is right for your application? By definition networks connect multiple devices through the use of IP for the purpose of sharing data & resources. These networks are broken down into several categories that explain where...
This is my first BLOG post on securityinfowatch.com and I am extremely excited about this opportunity. My first posted article " Understanding Wireless Bridges for IP Networks " was my "interview" and because enough of you thought it was...
