ISC West Scoop: Plug-And-Play Video Server

February 22, 2008

VideoProtein will formally unveil what it claims is the industry’s first IP video server at ISC West in April.


Texas School District Rolls Out IP Video Surveillance

February 20, 2008

LenSec recently announced its selection by Ysleta Independent School District in Texas to provide a district-wide IP video surveillance system for the high school campus network.


New Jersey Mall Uses Wireless Mesh Network To Improve Security

February 20, 2008

Firetide, a developer of wireless mesh and access networks, recently announced that the Livingston Mall in Livingston, N.J., has deployed a Firetide wireless mesh network to improve security at the super-regional shopping center.


IP=Interoperability (And Other Myths)

By John W. Verity · February 19, 2008

Who’d of thought something as humble as the Internet Protocol (IP) could roil the video surveillance market so?


Axis Communications Opens Training Center At U.S. Headquarters

February 14, 2008

Axis Communications recently announced that it has opened a new state-of-the-art training center at its U.S. headquarters in Chelmsford, Mass.


IKEA France Uses IP Video In Flagship Store

February 12, 2008

IKEA France Uses IP Video In Flagship Store

IKEA France has invested in a IP video solution for CCTV surveillance in its new 215,000 square foot flagship store in Grenoble.


March Networks Announces Acquisition Of Cieffe S.p.A

February 7, 2008

March Networks, a provider of intelligent IP video and business analysis applications, announced recently that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cieffe S.p.A. and its related company Insignis Technologies S.r.l.


Clear Vision: RFID Emerges As Powerful Security Tool

By Sharon J. Watson · February 5, 2008

A large German manufacturer wanted to reduce its operating and data storage costs while increasing the security efficiencies of the several hundred video surveillance cameras it uses to monitor a huge production facility. To accomplish this, the firm placed RFID tags on all the assets passing through the facility.


A Place In The New Resale Machine

By Frank Barbetta · February 5, 2008

Wisely prepared companies in the resale channel will continue to benefit from the new, emerging climate of security and IT convergence.


To IT and Beyond

By Martin Huddart · February 2008

Security experts should see themselves as convergence visionaries

To IT and Beyond

When many industry observers talk about how IT is changing security, the discussion typically reverts to the concept of hanging 30-year-old panel technology onto 10-year-old Ethernet backbones.


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