What is Happening to DVRs? Examining March Networks
By John Honovich
March Networks recently released an extremely detailed strategic report on the future of their product and its positioning. If you are a March...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
H.264 megapixel camera support may be the hottest topic in all of video surveillance today. Nevertheless, details on how H.264 megapixel cameras...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
[NOTE: This report is FAR out of date and is left here simply for historical purposes. See our recent Avigilon coverage.] While megapixel cameras...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
While video analytics holds great promise, people are still asking about the viability of using analytics in the real world. Indeed, as stories of...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
Hybrid NVR/DVRs are appliances (purposed built computers) that can simultaneously support IP cameras and directly connected analog cameras. This...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
CODECs are a critical element of choosing, designing and using video surveillance systems. CODECs can lower the price of overall systems and...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
Many believe security integrators are dead; walking dinosaurs who are oblivious to their impending extinction. Indeed, many new IT entrants...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
[UPDATE: This article is deprecated. The H.264 has now been widely accepted for years and is the surveillance market de facto standard. In 2013,...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
You may notice that your home cable modem offers greater bandwidth going down to your house than going up to the Internet. For instance, while you...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
After years of unfulfilled promises, panoramic cameras look ready to go mainstream. Increased performance, reduced costs and the rise of IP video...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
Megapixel cameras have brought renewed interest in measures to maximize NVR/DVR storage duration and use. Cost is a big factor as the potential...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
This statement may appear absurd because obviously security managers are buying higher resolution cameras, encoders and recorders. I do not doubt...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
Almost all IP video info is vendor marketing. Good decision making requires critically reading and analyzing this material. At first, I did not...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
Understanding what measures are feasible and what measures are extremely expensive or not possible is a key element in planning your network uptime...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
Most new technology fails but when it is successful, the business benefits can be enormous. The challenge then is how to efficiently determine...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
For 2 years now, speculation has been high on Cisco's video surveillance play. The Harrah's announcement magnifies this fear and excitement. To...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
One of the sexiest but riskiest ideas in video surveillance is hiring IT sales people. It's easy to think that we are now moving into IT, the...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
ROI calculations are powerful but can be distorted. While they hold the promise of identifying objective value, they can often obscure the...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
Two years since the entrance of IBM into video surveillance, the value of IBM is less clear than ever. Today, SecurityInfoWatch reports on the...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
IP cameras have become accepted by the security industry. Yet most cameras are still analog and most video management systems are still DVRs. When...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
While valued by security managers for years, use of RAID for video surveillance systems has been low. With many organizations migrating to software...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
Numerous wildly inaccurate claims on video analytics were made in today's Dallas News [link no longer available].The negative impact of such...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
It's all about false positives. Catching the bad guy is pretty easy for today's perimeter violation and abandoned object detection. Not catching...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
IT professionals evidently believe the Patriots should replace Belichick with the trainer. According to IT professionals, because injuries are so...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
Arecont Vision's upcoming release of H.264 megapixel cameras will spur adoption of megapixel cameras for mainstream security organizations. Until...
By John Honovich - over 16 years ago
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