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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

Viewing Your IP Cameras from the Cloud

Recently there was an article in the IEEE technical journal that declared, “Video Telephony has Finally Arrived”.  They described how…

10 years ago

Seeing in the Dark

Very low light optical cameras, IR illumination, and thermal cameras are options for seeing in the dark. It was a…

10 years ago

What is the Best Price for Your IP Camera System?

The other day I was walking down a street in Manhattan and I saw a guy selling watches.   There was…

10 years ago