INTRANSA today announced it has extended its VideoAppliance family with the VA100 and VA200 surveillance-optimised appliances, targeted at retail and security environments.
According to Intransa, the VideoAppliances are the first application-specific platforms to preload and host video management software from all five of the leading IP surveillance vendors.
Each Intransa appliance hosts the customer’s choice of VMS application, and delivers advanced, high performance recording and playback capacity, the company said.
Intransa VideoAppliances are simple to install and operate, without the complexity and ongoing support challenges of commodity hardware, and according to the company their patented video optimisation technology for surveillance requirements delivers lower costs, and eliminates the risk of lost video.
For a new IP surveillance deployment, such as retail stores, installers set-up standard or megapixel IP cameras throughout the location as required and plug an Intransa VideoAppliance VA100 or VA200 into the camera network.
The installer enters basic system information and the user license key for the selected video management software into the appliance before recording, without the need to size, acquire, install, configure, test or integrate commodity servers and storage with the VMS system.
For existing CCTV environments a VA100 or VA200 can add the power of IP while extending the life and usefulness of DVRs.
Intransa VideoAppliances can be used to increase DVR video retention capacity supporting maximum resolution and frame rate from attached analog cameras, while eliminating the risk of lost video that can plague CCTV.
A retail store could continue to leverage existing DVR and analog cameras and add new IP megapixel cameras to better monitor public areas, parking lots and cash registers.
Other benefits include built in hot-swap recording capacity with enterprise-grade components to ensure non-stop recording, while advanced RAID protection eliminates the risk of lost video.
For maximum uptime, the VA200 goes even further, with fully redundant, hot-swap power supplies and fans for fault resilient operation for the most demanding environments, according to the company.
Each VA100 and VA200 appliance comes equipped with 2 or 4 terabytes (TB) of video retention for a few days to a month or more of recording capacity, depending upon actual configuration, number of IP cameras and other settings.
A modular VA expander can be added to increase recording capacity by another 6 or 12TB in just 2U of rack space (3.5” high by 19” wide) without halting operation.
According to Intransa, both Intransa VideoAppliances offer outstanding performance in support of IP cameras and when used as a CCTV upgrade, for DVRs as well. The VA100 delivers 750 FPS at 4CIF with MJPEG or 1,500 FPS at 4CIF with MPEG4. The VA200 offers 900 FPS at 4CIF with MJPEG or 1,800 FPS at 4CIF with MPEG4.