I put together a pilot program for DVR + IP cameras about 2.5 years ago. I was pleasantly surprised with the capabilities of the Synology line of NAS boxes as a DVR server. I haven't followed them recently but definitely worth a look:
http://www.synology.com/us/solutions/surveillance/index.php -Adrian On Dec 9, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Jo Rhett <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/
