Technology: Video Solutions Documents Library

There are multiple reasons for deploying shared, external IP storage. Most important, benefits include the ability to reduce the cost of video surveillance for a single DVR and this benefit increases as more cameras, DVRs and NVRs are added. The best IP storage also delivers the ability to reduce the total amount of storage required, and to upgrade and add capacity without ever halting recording, while eliminating the risk of moving to IP to enjoy all of the benefits. IP storage also delivers the ability to extend retention periods at maximum resolution and frame rate for analog and IP network cameras indefinitely; enhances video and system reliability; eliminates the need for offline storage; reduces maintenance and administration; leverage existing infrastructure instead of being forced into rip-and-replacement of analog technology; adding support for new, non-traditional applications; optimizing performance of DVRs and NVRs; enabling the migration from DVRs to NVRs, as needed. This whitepaper covers these topics in extensive detail as a security practitioner's guidebook.

While direct attached storage (DAS) is a 1970s or 1980s technology, external IP storage is available as an alternative to increase reliability and retention and reduce cost. There are two flavors of external IP storage that came from the IT world and are now available for physical security: Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS). But while their names are somewhat similar, their performance is anything but. This technical review examines the differences between IP SAN and NAS, and using a standard test environment to show why IP SAN is far superior for video surveillance requirements and workloads.

Physical Security professionals will learn about the tremendous value your business can gain when the IT and Physical Security departments work together on the deployment of an IP-enabled physical security system over the corporate network. This paper outlines the 10 rules for a successful collaboration. Some of the topics covered include membership on the team, roles and responsibilities, physical security domain issues, information that the IT department will need, IT domain issues, planning and execution, levels of service and key terms that each group regularly uses.

IT professionals can learn 12 specific ways that they can mitigate physical security/IT convergence risks, work with the physical security team to utilize the corporate network infrastructure and maximize the security and business benefits from physical security technology. Some of the topics covered include membership on the team, roles and responsibilities, physical security domain issues, information that the IT department will need, IT domain issues, planning and execution, levels of service and key terms that each group regularly uses.

This paper offers insights into the impacts of the emergence and deployment of digital surveillance technology, particularly scalable, cost effective, centrally managed IP based technology on physical security departments, IT departments, security integrators and vendors.

This paper provides a short, basic tutorial on IP SAN (Storage Area Networks) and how it compares with traditional to legacy direct access storage (DAS) and fibre Channel (FC) networked storage. If you are new to the concepts of network shared storage, this paper will give you the basic understanding you need to evaluate and choose IP based video storage.