Examining Cisco's Defense of their Video Surveillance Strategy
By John Honovich
Let's examine the validity of Cisco's numerous responses and public statements defending the Pelco deal and their general video surveillance...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
Sanyo has announced a broad range of new products [link no longer available] that expands them from just the single VCC-HD4000 [link no longer...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
March Networks announced 2 significant advances in managing storage from IP cameras. These have an important impact on video surveillance design...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
FLIR has acquired a company specializing in low-light color imaging to complement its existing portfolio of thermal/IR imaging. The company,...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
Flir is moving into IP video with network thermal cameras and its own VMS software. FLIR introduces 3 series of IP cameras: the F-series (fixed box...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
Pelco is aggressively expanding its partner program - a move that is counter to the general trend of manufacturers tightening their own...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
Intransa has added a number of new servers/appliances to their product offerings, further "completing [their] move from a video storage vendor to...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
For its 2.0 release, BRS Labs has added rules based alerting. This rectifies a limitation in the 1.0 version where common events where not alerted...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
Less than 3 years ago, Cisco threatened the physical security industry with disruption and innovation. Spending more than $100 Million USD, Cisco...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
Ionodes is a recent startup drawing significant interest for its experienced founders and its partnership with Genetec. The product that looks to...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
Using video analytics to enhance search and investigation is growing. AgentVi has announced Vi-Search [link no longer available], a new product...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
ADT's President discussed [link no longer available] how the recession was impacting their security business. Possibly the most interesting remarks...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
Vote and make your voice heard on ASIS' product awards. For the first time, ASIS has issued awards to manufacturers [link no longer available]....
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
Despite lip service manufacturers give to open systems, the clear preferred path is selling end to end packages. Last year, we debated this...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
While "groundbreaking" technology is exciting to examine, significant cost changes usually have a more immediate impact on industries. The 3 newly...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
Proximex [link no longer available] is developing a PSIM appliance, called the C100 [link no longer available], that aims to be more affordable and...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
Properly evaluating TimeSight's extreme storage savings claims depend on carefully analyzing TimeSight's assumptions and contrasting that to...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
North America's largest system integrator has announced its key manufacturer promotions for ASIS, leading with Cisco's video surveillance offering...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
A review of Cernium's home/SMB appliance [link no longer available], called Archerfish, provides some key points of consideration in evaluating the...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
ioimage has announced [link no longer available] a new smart camera, the sc1dn [link no longer available] that has an MSRP of $990 USD (see...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
Salient is introducing a hybrid DVR appliance called the S500. The S500 will be a lower cost option to their existing RM-1000 [link no longer...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
Mx2Wire [link no longer available] enables existing building wiring to support power (PoE) and network transmission of IP cameras (read the Mobotix...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
Axis new dome series is the P33 (see powerpoint deck for overview and video below). This dome offers a fundamentally different design than...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
Pelco's new network camera dome series is the Sarix ID [link no longer available] (see datasheet of the 1.3 MP [link no longer available] option)....
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
IQinVision has released a 1080p/30fps H.264 camera series with day/night and color options (see datasheet for technical details). This series will...
By John Honovich - about 14 years ago
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