Hands-On Technology Lab Companies

For this event we have assembled a group of global-caliber companies who are the clear leaders in their technology category. These are customer-oriented companies whose product development is not tethered by legacy technology.

What's more, many of them will allow your customers to extend the use of their existing legacy technology and even get more security and operational benefits out of it. That's the best of both worlds.

You will notice some common themes throughout this page: extending the use of existing technology; providing advanced security detection and response capabilities; utilizing open platforms and open architecture; reducing security costs; and policy-based/rules-based security operations. Additionally, there is the dreaded buzzword "innovation", which is more than overused and which we hesitated to type on this page. But what else do you call it when a company introduces something new that provides significant benefits that haven't been available before?

To understand how beneficial their solutions are, you have to see them in action and use them yourself. That's what happens in the Hands-On Technology Lab.

Below is a list of our Founding Technology Lab sponsors, followed by brief descriptions of the companies and their offerings.

—Your hosts, Ray Bernard and James Connor

Technology Lab Sponsors

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Agent Vi ("Vi for "video intelligence ") delivers the next generation in enterprise video analytics software solutions for improved security, business intelligence and operations. Deployed in dozens of countries in thousands of “Agent-enabled” cameras and edge devices, our technology seamlessly integrates with existing video equipment and IT infrastructure, making video analytics feasible, affordable and scalable.

Agent Vi Systems optimizes video surveillance by automating event detection, scene analysis and event notification.

Agent Vi uses the existing infrastructure of analog and/or digital video to create a vital and suppelmentary layer of protection.

Agent Vi dramatically lowers installation and operational costs by minimizing hardware and network bandwidth requirements, delivering cost effective, next generation video analytics to customers facing a diverse set of surveillance and operational challenges.

Deployed in over 25 countries and in thousands of “Agent-enabled” cameras and edge devices, Agent Vi's technology seamlessly integrates with existing video equipment and IT infrastructure, making video analytics feasible, affordable and scalable.

Founded in 2003, Agent Vi has sales, distribution and research and development operations around the globe. The company has proven deployments worldwide with customers in retail, airports, rail, transportation, education, critical infrastructure, utility, government, financial institutions and metropolitan markets.

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Axis is an IT company offering network video solutions for professional installations. Ever since Axis invented the IP network camera back in 1996, they have continued to innovate. An example is the Axis digital Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) camera with no moving parts.

Axis is the global market leader in network video, driving the ongoing shift from analog to digital video surveillance. Axis products and solutions focus on security surveillance and remote monitoring, and are based on innovative, open technology platforms.

In addition to network cameras, Axis also manufactures video servers, which digitize analog video signals and send digital images directly over an IP network, such as a LAN, intranet or Internet. It essentially turns an analog video system into a network video system. This allows advanced video management and recording software to be used with an existing analog system.

Axis doesn't stop at producing high-quality products. They have a very strong and consistent focus on partnering and education. If you want to know what's coming next in video camera technology—ask Axis!

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Cisco Systems is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are essential to the successful operation of businesses of every size, and to service providers, governments, and homes around the world.

Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make these networks possible - giving individuals, companies, and countries easy access to information anywhere, at any time. The Cisco name has become synonymous with the Internet, as well as with the productivity improvements that networked business solutions provide.

Cisco IP Interoperability and Collaboration System (IPICS) 2.0 is a simple, scalable, comprehensive solution for communications interoperability and distributed incident management. It bridges radio, IP, and non-IP networks and enables multiple emergency responders to exchange important information on-demand for better incident management and day-to-day operations across departments, agencies, and jurisdictions. By sending radio traffic over an IP network, Cisco IPICS enables direct communication with other radios, fixed or mobile phones, and PCs.

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Commend USA is one of the largest global suppliers of Intercom Systems, with a strong, international Partner Network. Commend supplies solutions for communication and security, in which speech, image and data are combined on a uniform user interface.

Commend was first to launch a fully digital Intercom Station with a graphic display (in 1993), and first to launch a full duplex (talking and listening simultaneously) intercom system (in 2003). Using Voice over IP protocol, Commend launched Intercom over IP (IoIP) in 2005, with systems fully compatible with VoIP network protocols.

Commend's line of networked intercom products also supports legacy (analog) intercoms, bringing them onto the network and increasing their manageability without requiring a rip-and-replace scenario.

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Intransa offers scalable, security-grade IP network storage for video surveillance, video analytics and other leading edge security applications.

Customer-proven around the world since 2003, deploying Intransa IP storage allows users and security integrators to record the take from a handful, a dozen, a hundred, a thousand or even tens of thousands of video surveillance cameras with a single, easy to manage storage system.

Intransa IP storage systems grow modularly and inexpensively, reducing capital expenditures on DVRs, NVRs, servers and other devices, decreasing potential failure points and increasing overall reliability. Yet with a fully field replacable, modular architecture that can be upgraded to be fully redundant, and always available without adding complexity.

Customers can retain more, regardless of frame rate, resolution, still or full motion, for much longer retention periods without adding significant cost, yet supporting new applications such as biometrics and video analytics.

Starting with as little at 4 terabyte of RAID-protected network storage, enough for a dozen or more cameras, that same Intransa IP storage system can grow to support over 1,000 terabytes, enough for tens of thousands of cameras. And since all growth is modular, nothing ever has to be replaced and thrown out, but additional storage is added when needed, very cost effectively.

Intransa ensures that our scalable IP network storage integrates with security-oriented applications and equipment through our StorAlliance Technology Partner Program labs, with extensive testing to ensure complete, functioning solutions to customer needs, using the independent software vendor (ISV) or independeng hardware vendor (IHV) solution of their choice.

Intransa is a leading member of the Security Industry Association. Intransa products are available around the world through its StorPartner Channel Program security integrators.

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On-Net Surveillance Systems, Inc. (OnSSI) is a developer of comprehensive IP video surveillance control and management solutions which deliver feature-rich camera management, intelligent detection and delivery and the most advanced means of video monitoring and investigation.
With core competencies rooted in both the IT and professional security markets, OnSSI's unique solutions provide feature-rich camera management, sophisticated recording and archiving, automatic Push Live Video on event, control-room video-wall management and virtual matrix functionality.

Ocularis, OnSSI's IP Video Control platform, is designed to operate on a single platform with unprecedented levels of user-intuitiveness, open architecture and scalability. Users are able to choose best-of-breed components as they evaluate and identify the appropriate physical security surveillance solution. Ocularis' non-proprietary, open architecture solution enables integration of video content analytics, access control, physical security and transaction systems to produce filtered, events-only video streams. The result is that fewer operators are needed to effectively monitor hundreds and thousands of cameras in control room and desktop environments, substantially reducing operating costs.

With significant advancement in human engineering, the Ocularis Client's intuitive touch-screen, map-based interface, delivers powerful investigation tools providing immediate access and response to captured events.

OnSSI's IP solutions can be found in over 22,000 deployments in a wide range of municipalities, federal and local government agencies, as well as enterprise, transportation, corporate, industrial, and educational settings. For more information, visit: www.onssi.com.

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Proximex provides security organizations an intelligent command and control solution that allows them to respond to incidents in seconds, report comprehensive incident details in minutes, and create a framework for continual enterprise awareness.

In today’s security-conscious environment, the ability to quickly detect, analyze and respond to security incidents is paramount.

Proximex leverages existing security systems and enables security teams to view, manage and control security resources from a single, centralized workstation. Unlike other integrated system tools, the Proximex solution intelligently fuses data from any number of relevant security sensors to provide information “in context.” Security teams can immediately analyze situations and dispatch the right information to the right people for immediate, intelligent response.