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How to Select the Best IP Intercom

What are the features and functions to look for when selecting your IP intercom? By Bob Mesnik IP intercoms are simple in…

10 years ago

Detection, Recognition, and Identification – Thermal vs. Optical IP Camera

Resolution required for Recognition, Detection, Identification depends on the type of camera By Bob Mesnik There is some confusion in…

10 years ago

What IP Camera Resolution Do You Need?

How to determine the resolution required for your IP camera systemBy Bob Mesnik How much resolution do you need?  It…

10 years ago

How Power Over Ethernet Works

PoE makes installation very easy By Bob Mesnik This article has been updated on 10/4/2018 to reflect the new PoE…

10 years ago

The Difference Between Jukeboxes and CD/DVD Servers

CD Servers, RAID, Optical Disc or Cloud Storage? That is the questionby Dennis Gallen “What’s the difference between a jukebox…

10 years ago

How to Comply With the Archiving Regulations Without Paying an Arm and a Leg

Optical Archiving Libraries make it easy to protect your data.by Bob Mesnik So you are being dragged kicking and screaming…

10 years ago

How Blu-ray Optical Discs Work

The technology for storing data continues to bring us ever-increasing capacity. First, there were CD-ROM discs, next the DVD-discs, which…

10 years ago

How to handle all the Information that needs to be Archived

Meeting the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act As I recall, the first optical discs became available in the fall of…

10 years ago

How Surge Protectors Work

Ligtning's Thief, by Virginia Fair Once upon a time a major university installed IP cameras throughout its campus in reaction to…

10 years ago

Comparison of the Classic Analog Paging System to the PA over IP Systems

This article compares central analog amplifiers to distributed digital network attached amplifiers. The latest IP paging systems utilize the Ethernet…

10 years ago