My employer is using a Milestone XProtect system which we really like. The three of us IT guys who manage it are quite happy with it from a technical standpoint, and the end users in Facilities and Administration are not complaining about it at all. It's spendy but in our case we're getting what we paid for.
At home, I'm using Geovision. As a techie, I give it a thumbs-up, but I wouldn't have a great feeling about non-techs using it. The sales person was right when he said it was feature-rich at a reasonable cost, but was not intuitive. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jo Rhett Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 5:19 PM To: LOPSA Discuss List Subject: [lopsa-discuss] security video monitoring options for 60+ cameras This probably isn't something that most LOPSA people play with, but if you do I'm curious what you think. One of my customers has some aging March DVR units. Good, high-quality video from both cabled and IP cameras. Something like 60 cameras across 2 sites total. At the time I looked (5-6 years ago), nothing compared to March in terms of quality/price for that density. Has anything else sprung up or that I overlooked on my previous review which we should consider? Note that solutions which depend entirely on unix hackery are not really an option. The staff who will maintain this are good noc/operations stock -- in the old-world "operations" sense, not in the "systems/network engineering" sense I keep seeing on recent job advertisements. Integration with Unix/Linux is awesome, a black box product which boots Linux/*BSD kernel is fine, but the "black box" part is fairly crucial. Cameras already exist, we're just looking at the concentrator/storage options. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet projects. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
