Concerned about bandwidth impact of IP video?

We came across this great article, IT Trends impacting IP video: The network's bandwidth, on securityinfowatch.com written by James Marcella of Axis Communications. Here are some key points from the article to consider when transition to IP video:

1. Bandwidth is still a concern for many organizations considering an IP video deployment. Security improvement projects can be stalled when an origination’s IT professions are concerned about the network impact of streaming video from IP cameras and supporting the cameras and recording servers.

2. Confusion is partly related to video streaming from websites, such as youtube.com, to an organizations network. In this scenario, the organizations Internet connection (WAN) is taxed by the incoming video streams. The WAN connection is much slower than internal network connections (LAN) which would be used by an IP video deployment.

3. Even using a high resolution, high frame rate configuration, bandwidth generated by an H.264 capable IP camera only amounts to a fraction of the bandwidth available on the LAN.

4. Modern LANs using switches automatically segment traffic. Each connected device has its own dedicated bandwidth meaning video generated by the cameras will not affect other network traffic, such as email.

Using CompleteView for IP video deployments provides unique advantages, such as Dynamic Resolution Scaling, which further reduces the bandwidth impact on your LAN. Additionally, CompleteView provides powerful administration features making it easy to monitor, manage and maintain a large and dispersed video surveillance installation. These features help to make an IP video deployment easier for an organization's IT department to support. For more information please check out our white paper, Why is CompleteView Network Friendly?