Cisco Video Surveillance Is Dead, Long Live Cisco Meraki Video Surveillance
A dozen years ago much of the industry thought that Cisco was destined to dominate video surveillance. They stumbled repeatedly, failing. Now it is over.
However, Cisco is not out of video surveillance, as they confirmed to IPVM, while the original Cisco is all being EOLed, Cisco is now focusing on Meraki as the future of video surveillance.
Inside this note, we examined what went wrong for Cisco over the past decade and how Cisco is taking aim at the market with Meraki.
Related: Cisco Meraki Cloud VMS/Cameras Tested
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** *** **** ******** ****** ** mind? ** * **** *** * was **** ** *** ***** ***** (Pelco) ******* ** ***** *** *******, but ***** **** ****** *** **** or **** ****** ***** ******* ***** RTSP.
*** ***** **** ****** ****** ***** conformance:
Open ***: Support for Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) 2.0 and Profile S allows for standards-based interoperability and communications with other ONVIF appliances.
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