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Fiber optic cabling provides numerous benefits for transporting the video signaling in a security and surveillance network and you can read more about those benefits in my previous post here. Once the need for fiber optic cabling has been identified or the need to transport the video signal on an existing fiber optic backbone exists, the next problem to solve is how to accomplish this task while protecting your investment in existing copper-based video equipment.
Before we discuss how media conversion can ease this transition to fiber optic cabling, let’s first review the common components and architectures of today’s copper-based video security and surveillance systems.
Whether the video surveillance is analog-based or IP-based, there are a number of common components to most video systems including cameras, cabling infrastructure, monitors and a means of recording the video for future use and playback. Let’s take a quick look at the two main technologies for video systems in use today. continue »
Keywords: analog video security, Equipment, Ethernet, fiber optics, IP Video, IP video security, media conversion, Media Converter, Medium, video security systems, video surveillance
