Avigilon High Definition Stream Management?

Interresting read. Just got off a sales pitch from Aviglon. would there be any plans to do a sanity check on where they are in terms of technology. We have all seen the news about their growth. An MSRP of ~350$ per channel is steep but long term there are no ongoing costs. (for now that is, no annual support). They still seem to lack enterprise management tools, and its not was not clear whether the client streaming capability is still restricted to JPEG2000 cameras.

HDSM is a combination of JPEG2000 and multistreaming for H.264 cameras. With JPEG2000, one obviously has the much higher storage costs to deal with. With H.264, it is nothing unique as many offer multistreaming including a number who do it better. See our VMS Multistreaming Comparison.

Here is a report on Avigilon 5.0 Upgrade Plan and Costs Reviewed