Starting point
Numerous IP cameras spread across several branches, each installation managed on its own. Recordings were neither centrally accessible nor stored consistently against the required retention periods.
What we built
All cameras were integrated into a central management and recording platform, with permissions per area of responsibility and alarms from camera analytics — line crossing or unauthorised entry, for example. Because of the high video load, a dedicated network was built and camera traffic separated from the corporate network via VLANs and subnets.
Result
Security staff access the cameras they are cleared for from one place, recordings are retained correctly, and video traffic no longer loads the data network. An incident in the camera segment does not spread to other segments.
More references
Disaster recovery across two sites
Critical systems keep running at the second site in an emergency. Downtime and the risk of data loss are significantly reduced, and the dependency on a single site is gone.
Corporate ITPhysical servers virtualised (P2V)
The hardware dependency is gone. Backup, restore, migration and resource management now run through the virtualisation layer instead of hardware appointments.
Multi-branch businessFirewall cluster with high availability
In testing the second instance took over each time and the link between head office and branches stayed stable. The dependency on a single firewall or line is gone.