Milestone ONVIF Bridge Tested

Author: Ethan Ace, Published on Jul 06, 2016

The Milestone ONVIF Bridge could be a breakthrough.

Enterprise VMSes have long restricted 3rd party access making larger system integration more difficult, PSIMs more complex and expensive and greater lock-in.

Now, Milestone's ONVIF Bridge, enabling open, free 3rd party integration of live and recorded video could make one of the bigger players more open and spur their rivals like Avigilon, Exacq and Genetec to do the same.

But does it work?

We tested the Milestone ONVIF Bridge with 5 VMSes including Avigilon, Exacq and Genetec to see how it worked.

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VMS ***********

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Comments (11)

Undisclosed Integrator #1

07/06/16 01:27pm

"*** ******* ***** ******* ** ******* ** *** ************* ** providing ***** ***. ******* ** *** ********* ***, *** *** party ******, ** *** ** ***** *** ********* *******."

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Sergey Bystrov

NetworkOptix | 07/06/16 04:44pm

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Murat Altuev

AxxonSoft | In reply to Sergey Bystrov | 07/08/16 06:17pm

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #3

In reply to Murat Altuev | 07/08/16 07:44pm

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John Honovich

IPVM | In reply to Undisclosed Manufacturer #3 | 07/08/16 07:47pm

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #3

In reply to John Honovich | 07/08/16 07:52pm

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #3

In reply to John Honovich | 07/08/16 08:16pm

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Undisclosed #2

In reply to Sergey Bystrov | 07/08/16 06:30pm

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #4

03/29/17 06:39pm

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Ethan Ace

IPVM | In reply to Undisclosed Manufacturer #4 | 03/29/17 07:18pm

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #4

03/29/17 07:22pm

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