Infrastructure

BCDVideo’s BCD380V8-M-VRP-C has been engineered with reliability, accessibility, and serviceability features in mind, according to the manufacturer. It is the cornerstone unit of BCDVideo’s Nova Series of devices, and is manufactured specifically for enterprise IP video surveillance applications. The Nova Series is the latest-generation platform…

Composite video – analogue systems and devices – has served the video surveillance sector well over the years. There are still a high number of career criminals serving time because of composite images! It might be fashionable to knock composite solutions, but is such criticism…

There are many reasons why network-based connectivity is increasingly adopted as the communications method of choice for a variety of risk-relevant systems and solutions. Cost efficiencies, flexibility, interoperability and the ability to future-proof systems are all major selling points. Because network technology is – by…

When considering video archiving, the most common scenario is to opt for centralised solution. All video streams from across a site are brought back to a central point, usually a control room, where a recording system stores the relevant data. With recent advances in technology,…

Because of the widespread use of composite-based video surveillance, coaxial cable is still prolific across the majority of sites. Whilst it can be argued that installing new coaxial infrastructure is a path best avoided, it equally makes little sense to simply rip out and replace…