Get Educated on IP Video

Feb 1, 2007 12:00 PM

           

Looking for answers to questions about IP video technologies and implementation? End-users, systems integrators and consultants now have an online tool to provide those answers, thanks to Bosch Security Systems' IP Resource Center. The online center, which launched last August, functions as a one-stop solutions-oriented Web portal designed to help simplify video over IP technology for users. The site is divided into three sections: a Learning Center, which defines IP video terms and concepts through topical articles; a Design Center, which offers design templates and blueprints for a range of system types; and a Support Center that provides an outlet for frequently asked questions from users. The Web site boasts a database of instructional videos, how-to information, case studies, press releases, white papers, links for software and firmware downloads and datasheets to educate and aid the user.

“This Web site is a no-brainer because there is a huge demand for information about how the basics work,” says Dr. Bob Banerjee of Bosch Security Systems product marketing. “It is designed for anybody that wishes to learn about and tackle the basics of IP network video.” Banerjee says that the Learning Center attracts about 70 to 80 percent of site visitors. “The Learning Center is the place a user will go because he or she knows nothing about IP. It takes you step-by-step through the contents and gives an interactive learning experience, which is what so many users are looking for,” he says.

Here is an excerpt from the site's Learning Center about iSCSI Storage:

iSCSI, pronounced eye-skuzzy, is a protocol, a standardized way to talk to IP-based storage across an IP network. iSCSI combines the latest and greatest from the storage and communications worlds — SCSI storage (which uses the SCSI protocol) and the IP network (which uses the TCP/IP protocol). iSCSI is SCSI over IP. The iSCSI disk array eliminates the need for an NVR server and software, and so the encoders and IP cameras can stream their video direct-to-disk, where the unit is Network-Attached Storage.

Until the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) invented iSCSI back in 2002, the main storage protocol was SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface). SCSI is still the most widespread method of communicating with RAID, and is in fact used by Bosch to connect its NVR server (running Windows 2003 Server) to a SCSI RAID. SCSI RAIDs are also commonly used to attach massive storage directly to DVRs, including Bosch's Divar and DiBos.

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