Over the past several years the industry has accelerated its adoption of converged physical security infrastructures. Many of us in the IT field have seen this happen with other technologies such as data, voice, and video utilizing a common network. Leveraging the same infrastructure to also deliver physical security and video surveillance services allows for a more flexible, scalable, and cost-effective solution across many different industries and applications.
It allows benefits such as unified credential repositories, centralized video retention, remote viewing, and much more. It opens the ability to integrate additional business/building systems to the physical security infrastructure as well.
Some examples of these include:
- Displaying video footage on IP phones
- Utilizing phones to lock/unlock doors
- Integrating badges with Active Directory credentials
- Integrating badges with RFID location-tracking systems
But in our experience, it’s not about the pieces and parts, it’s about how you tie them together as a solution that adds value to your business.
Confiance brings the ability to leverage multiple manufacturers, custom on-staff development, and experienced engineers to create and deliver the right solution for your business.
Call us today for a private consultation with one of our experienced solution architects at 1-866-632-3885
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)
Cisco Video Surveillance Solutions
Q. Does Confiance offer Video Surveillance Solutions?
A. Yes, Confiance offers the entire enterprise capable Cisco Video Surveillance Solution.
Q. Does the Cisco solution support 3rd party IP cameras?
A. Yes, the Cisco VSOM supports Cisco cameras and a wide variety of 3rd party IP cameras.
Q. Is Confiance able to design, implement, and support these solutions?
A. Yes, Confiance provides advanced design, implementation, and Guardian Managed/Monitoring services for Cisco Video Surveillance systems.
Q. Is Confiance IP Solutions, Inc. authorized by the NC State Department of Justice to design, install, and support Video Surveillance solutions?
A. Yes, Confiance IP Solutions, Inc. is authorized by the NC State DOJ by holding the “NC State Buglar Alarm license - # 2223-CSA” credentials.
Q. Does the Cisco Video Surveillance solution support Video Walls and analog cameras?
A. Yes the Cisco solution supports a video wall software solution, which allows an operator to push and pull video panes from their local PC up to large screen monitors. Yes analog cameras can be attached through an analog to IP encoders.
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Cisco Access Control Solutions
Q. Does Confiance offer Access Control Solutions?
A. Yes, Confiance offers the enterprise class Cisco Access Control solution.
Q. What does Cisco manufacture as part of this Access Control solution?
A. Cisco manufactures and sells the Access Control Software appliance and the access control gateways.
Q. Does Cisco rely on the existing expertise of 3rd party access control hardware manufacturers to complete an “end to end” solution?
A. Yes, Cisco manufactures the management software and “IP to Door component” gateways. Companies such as RCI, HID, Altronix, and HES all work with the Cisco access control solution.
Q. Does Confiance offer design, implementation, and full lifecycle support services?
A. Yes, Confiance offers these services and holds the “NC Burglar Alarm” license credentials which is required by the “NC State Department of Justice”.
Q. Is this a centralized solution or do you have servers everywhere?
A. The advantage to the Cisco Access Control solution is that it is a centralized solution. The Cisco PAME server communicates to each access control gateway in the network. In the event that the PAME server goes offline each access control gateway will locally buffer and process ingress/egress requests.
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