evolving from Analogue to IP CCTV Sometimes as a customer or integrator you face an often confusing choice about the best way to bring CCTV systems into the 21st century computer age. Recognising this quandary, CBC has developed VSoIP, possibly the first truly software based hybrid video management solution. VSoIP’s main strength is that it doesn’t just allow you to connect to a multitude of IP cameras and video codecs – it also enables you to connect your existing analogue cameras, thereby achieving the best of both worlds. The Ganz VSoIP system has been designed to provide the integration and benefits of IP based products whilst offering advantages of using your existing analogue equipment. 14
Scalability gains
Open protocols
VSoIP is a true client server application
The open architecture of VSoIP supports
that will give you scalability, from just a
not just the Ganz and VSII range of
few cameras right up to a system with
IP cameras and video Codecs but also
hundreds of surveillance units spread
over 20 of the world’s most popular
over multiple sites and monitored by
IP video equipment, and providing
multiple operators. The system’s unique
multiple protocols for control of a vast
design enables existing analogue
array of PTZ devices. The VSoIP video
cameras to be monitored and managed
management system will give you total
just like an IP device.
control of your estate, whether on a single site or multiple locations. Your
This will allow you, as a system
operators can navigate their way around
manager, to view multiple analogue
simply and efficiently using VSoIP’s
cameras anywhere on your site/s as
server based HTML maps feature, which
individual cameras. Their pictures can be
offers an overview map of the site as
displayed either on the VSoIP video wall
well as multiple level maps to give the
displays or as images on your operators’
greatest detail, eg a single room or
screens. Analogue images can be mixed
corridor.
and matched with images from your IP cameras and video Codecs to provide
A quick click on the camera icon will
complete control and management of
then provide the operator with instant
the system. This flexibility includes the
pictures of that area. For those where
ability to view live images and review
a map feature is not required the
recorded images from any site, any time,
operators can easily find the cameras
anywhere.
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