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Comments (52)
Tony Darland
"As part of their training module, Axis provides a list of questions to ask potential suppliers:"
Is it just assumed a suppler will answer these questions honestly? In lieu of outright lying, it seems they would at the very least be vague if answering in the negative if they felt it would jeopardize a deal.
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Undisclosed Integrator #1
The problem with OEM as an integrator is that it's hard to know if the same vulnerabilities affect the OEM as the name brand manufacturers. As an example, Hikvision has changed and updated their login/password procedures over the past couple of years but not all OEMs have followed this path which means there could be authentication differences yet it's very hard to know where the changes take place and if particular OEMs are actually affected by vulnerabilities found.
In both the Dahua and Hikvision recent security issues, I'm seeing OEMs that don't even know about the issue and have yet to receive or release new firmware let alone let their customers know about it.
It makes it hard to pick suppliers because, on one hand, the OEMs we work with tend to be very responsive and extremely helpful compared to working with Dahua or Hikvision directly. Yet when problems like security issues arise, OEMs can fall short in handling it in a short time if at all.
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Undisclosed Integrator #2
If you buy axis you are buying axis that is unless you buy canon which is axis but not axis... well it's kinda axis but also....
;)
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Sean Nelson
05/20/17 05:35am
The issue with Axis is they offer no great benefit over the major chinese manufactured cameras to justify the costs.
Nothing against Axis, they are just overpriced and they are obviously feeling the pressure to respond to the asian manufacturers via their training module as well as their recently poor attempt to offer low cost cameras to compete with these manufacturers. They still do well with project based jobs but losing ground with the everyday integrator.
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Undisclosed Integrator #4
Axis should consider bringing on more companies to relable their products. Axis support for smaller integrators is terrible, this is why their product never took off for us. I called several times and could never get anyone to come out and train us because we were new to IP video and they didn't take us seriously. In the last 5 years we've now sold thousands of IP cameras. It was a loss for Axis. On the other hand we've worked with people who relable other cameras, because they're smaller I've found they paid more attention to us and provided the support we needed in the beginning to get moving. I am of the opinion of Axis sold their products through a few reputable firms who relabled them and provided their own support they could reach some integrators they would not normally reach. I could be totally wrong but that's my 2 cents.
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Dwayne Cooney
In the last few years we have standardized on Axis enterprise wide. I have over 1500 Axis cameras globally and our service rates have dropped dramatically when compared to other manufacturers. The engineering and build quality are above and beyond all other cameras I have tested. Of course ease of installation, compatibility and image quality are other factors where Axis has exceeded expectations.
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #9
As far as I remember Axis also OEM some of their models from Taiwanese manufacturer, at least in the past, do they stop all the OEMs now or they just hide it better than others?
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #9
Hmm.. you can easily find supporting information if you can read Chinese, the manufacturer I am referring to is a listed company in Taiwan and you can easily find public information as long as you search Axis + the manufacturer's name in Chinese. Here is one link for your reference, maybe you can google translate.
https://statementdog.com/insight/posts/42-%E5%BD%A9%E5%AF%8C(5489)-%E9%9D%A2%E5%B0%8D%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E7%AB%B6%E7%88%AD%E7%9A%84%E5%AE%89%E6%8E%A7%E8%A8%AD%E5%82%99%E4%BB%A3%E5%B7%A5%E5%BB%A0
Of course, maybe they stop it now so they made that claim in this article, or it's not cameras but NVR or joysticker or some other accessories they are OEM from the manufacturer, but personally I don't believe so....
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Undisclosed #12
I don't know Axis offer in depth, but someone told me last year that their cheapest cameras are manufactured in "Asia". Is that true? If true, is it like a OEM/ODM or just is that they have a factory there?
Thanks.
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