[cisco-voip] OT: Video Surveillance

[Johnson, Ken]

We've been doing network-based video recording for about 3 years and
just switched our back-end software to Milestone
(http://www.milestonesys.com/) with some good results (the price is
right and the technology works well).  You can get it from any of their
resellers (email me if you want to know the one we picked) or if you
prefer there's an OEM-rebranded version of it minus one of the top tiers
levels of the product sold by ONSSI at http://www.onssi.com/ There are
other Network Video Recorder products on the market - but standard
software on open PC platforms is a blessing and this is one of the best
we've used.

We packaged those with some updated cameras from
http://www.arecontvision.com/ - decent prices, high resolution, and
decent FPS (actually far more than you (likely) need). These are a
little higher-priced because of the res - but you can get standard
640x480 res cameras for some pretty low numbers without much trouble. We
also have a number of existing standard-resolution static and PTZ
cameras from Sony, Toshiba, and others that work fine including some
wireless ones (although some of the high-res cameras can push 40+Mbps at
full res so that starts to push it - but we don't run most of our
multi-megabit cameras at highest res - there's not yet a need. They all
come back to a single Intel Dual-processor server with a few Terabytes
of storage - not very expensive there either.

I saw the Cisco solution right as we finished up our latest expansion so
haven't had a chance to really investigate it - if they do some true
integration with other Cisco solutions it could be pretty cool - until
then it would depend how much premium there is on the product and
frankly how good the product is to begin with - even a lot of the "big
guys" that make good cameras don't make that great of recording software
in our experience - focus on the center recording solution first - the
cameras at the edge are rapidly becoming commodity solutions (IMHO).

Ken Johnson
   Mgr. Network Services,
   Information Technology
   LeTourneau University
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-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jason Aarons
(US)
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 7:05 PM
To: Jonathan Charles; Jeffrey C. Ollie
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] OT: Video Surveillance

The NetBotz are a lot more expensive and do a lot more than the Axis 210
cameras.

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jonathan
Charles
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 8:00 PM
To: Jeffrey C. Ollie
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] OT: Video Surveillance

In my previous job, we had NetBotz IP cameras everywhere... they
seemed to work fine, easy enough to configure and use... and if you
have a SAN, you can keep lots of recordings for later posting onto the
newsgroups (when you catch your employees doing naughty stuff)...



Jonathan

On 6/14/07, Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> Cisco recently started offering video surveillance products (I guess
> after buying out the company that designed them):
>
>
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6918/Products_Sub_Category_Home.ht
ml
>
> Does anyone here have experiences with these products (or ones from
the
> predecessor company) that they could share?  Due to the events at
> Virginia Tech we're looking at beefing up our security/surveillance
and
> one of the things they are looking at are cameras that feed data back
to
> a central monitoring/recording server over the LAN.
>
> Jeff
>
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