IT & Networking Companies Adding Surveillance
Are you an IT or Networking Company looking to add Surveillance Installations to your service offerings? You are not alone! We continue to see more and more businesses that have IT/Networking backgrounds adding this service with their existing offerings. It makes all the sense in the world, their customer is asking for it and rather than turning it down, this industry is embracing it!
They are all ready familiar with the PC based DVR's and NVR's. The wiring can be ordered with BNC connectors to make it an instant plug and play type install. If you are running CAT5 you can still use analog surveillance cameras with a CAT5 Balun to convert the video. This allows the client to update to IP Cameras in the future with no additional networking expense due to bandwidth concerns.
If you are an IT/Networking company looking to jump into the Surveillance Industry, don't hesitate, you are not alone. However when choosing a Surveillance Vendor, make sure they have technical expertise and offer telephone support. In a perfect world, they might even have a systems engineer and technicians are able to answer all of your questions, ensuring that you are not without support in the field. If you can find a company that custom builds there DVR Surveillance Systems (Commercial Surveillance applications) they will better understand your business and you're possible frustrations as a newcomer to the industry. As some CCTV Installers fail to embrace new technologies and methods, the IT/Networking community will continue to gain market share.
Ryan Temple is the Director of Operations for PCSurveillance.net. PCSurveillance has been serving integrators and manufacturing customized Surveillance Systems throughout the US since 2002. You can read more of Ryan's articles at http://blog.pcsurveillance.net/ Ryan can be directly contacted at ryan@pcsurveillance.net
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