VMS Service Fees
By: John Honovich, Published on Jun 07, 2009VMS vendors and integrators are both looking for new services to offer (recurring revenue, etc.) VideoInsight released a series of interesting documents describing their offering including:
- Live monitoring starting at $25 per camera per month [link no longer available]
- Health monitoring $450 per server per year [link no longer available]
- Extensive list of maintenance fees [link no longer available]
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