Back in the day, Axis made "print-servers". Printers needed to be connected to a PC over a parallel port, but with an Axis print-server, you could connect your printer to the print-server and thus bring the printer "online". You basically gave the dumb printer networking capabilities. Naturally, as printers started getting this capability, the print-server business dried up, and instead Axis turned it's attention to cameras.
In the beginning the analog camera guys were laughing, the cameras were slow and clumsy and cost a fortune, but in some cases they solved a problem where analog just couldn't cut it. The experience was bad, and feasible use-cases were not many. Furthermore, there were no standards. Axis made their own proprietary protocol, and it only worked with a handful of systems. Those systems were slow and cumbersome too. I couldn't believe it when people bought a system, and I had to agree when people complained and felt that they had made a mistake switching from a simple VCR to this madness.
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