Vivotek Revenue Soars

I wonder if you can flash a Meraki or Verkada camera with Vivotek firmware to take away the proprietary-ness?  Anyone wanna take a chance?  I'd try if but I don't have any to test on.

I would think UDP and Hitron out of South Korea would be starting to benefit from the ban.

Ouch.

There are 4 "no-namers" on the list that outrank Pelco. I have no idea how many models Pelco was using Vivotek for, but I have a feeling this ranking is roughly representative of Pelco's general ranking in terms of sales relative to a bunch of random unknowns hustling products online/Amazon, or in local markets.

That new Pelco CEO is going to be in for quite a ride.

NOTE- Biased Comments here as we are the Vivotek field sales rep firm for the Central US for 9 years now, but the quiet attraction to Vivotek has several notables:

1)  Their quality control has been as good as anyone's, especially 10+ years ago when other brands were struggling with their early entry into IP. Vivotek has been making IP cameras for almost 20 years now. Their labs in Taiwan really put their models through their paces.

2) Channel Partner Program- While just about everyone has a dealer program these days, Vivotek joined the club just a few years ago and as dealers become aware they can earn pricing advantages with Vivotek also, they have become more deliberate in specifying the brand.

3) Vivotek is not among the multiple vendors that are always on sale somewhere every month. This leads to more stable street pricing (read profitable) and more integrity to the Project Registration objective.

To IPVM's point, Vivotek could be more overt about their Taiwan heritage. We generally find that to be down the list of interests to dealers, but one that helps affirm their decision when choosing a quality manufacturer.

probably irrelevant to their perfomance but their user interface needs an update in my opinion. Looks very 2000 and late.

On the one hand, it is a bit confusing, since this is a prime opportunity for Vivotek to build its branded business. On the other, Vivotek is evidently doing quite well manufacturing for others and often such customers prefer that their suppliers do not compete with them.

this is very common OEM mentality which i have seen in many TW/KR manufacturers and it prevented them from growing their own brands. Once manufacturing moved to China, many of the TW and KR OEMs just withered and died because they were no longer cost-competitive and did not have brand recognition to rely on. i hope for vivotek they wont make this mistake again. 

I would use them for their fixed lens value line, except they only have wide angle lenses available.  They used to offer 2.8/4/6/8 mm options.  We actually had a special tool that would allow us to switch in the field with seperately sold lenses.  This is why we most commonly use Hanwa nowadays.  (I believe it is the same with Axis in their value series).  How do you view a hall at any distance with a 2.8.  (we have hundreds of FD8134 cameras from 2011-2014 in the field still chugging along, though the onboard motion is really bad and unreliable, and did not improve with the FD8X35H line, which caused us to finally stop using them).