With the increased threats and occurences of harm affecting our private and public communities, enhanced means of security need to be developed. Whether the task is to protect students in school or our nation's freight carriers, video surveillance takes a key role in these tasks.  Recent advancements in this field have allowed video traffic to traverse the same networks carrying your organizations data. A key benefit is quicker access and more universal access to incidents.

    With  the Internet revolution and the ever-increasing presence of Local Area Networks, technology took great strides in video surveillance in the 1990’s. Analog camera tubes were replaced with CCD (Charged Coupled Devices) and digital cameras became affordable for most people. This combination meant that video surveillance could do two things: go live over the Internet or a closed IP network for surveillance and provide clearer, crisper images that could be tracked and manipulated easily. For law enforcement, digital surveillance meant it was much easier to zoom in on images, track particular scenes and enhance features.

The leap into completely IP-based technology is the best bang for your buck both monetarily and in terms of security by far. Digital surveillance can be done over a LAN network, of course, but TCP/IP transmittal of surveillance makes sense for remote monitoring of multiple locations and for remote recording of data onto back-up servers and hard disks for long-term storage. With IP-based video surveillance, you can connect your surveillance camera or cameras to any network or wireless adapter, and you are extremely flexible in your placement of the camera itself.  Your physical video protection is now enhanced by your IP network!

Marketware Technologies utilizes Cisco's new line of IP based video surveillance products.  Cisco video surveillance software and hardware unlocks the value of your video and video system investments, enabling faster incident response, investigation and resolution by providing: 

• Secure access to live and recorded video—anywhere, anytime—with a broad range of devices
• Simplified deployment and control of new security applications
• Support for existing investments in analog and IP devices
• Multivendor interoperability
• Unparalleled scalability, reliability and availability