Security monitoring system has entered the era of network monitoring

At present, the entire security monitoring system has entered the era of network monitoring. Whether it is the codec for video surveillance, alarm access, access control, or shared storage and network, it has begun to present the trend of networked development with IP as the main feature. The rapid growth of industry network monitoring requirements is a new requirement for security software. How to use the simplest architecture and highest efficiency to achieve the basics of seeing, controlling, storing, managing and using cross-regional network monitoring systems Business has become a problem that every security software vendor must consider.

During this period, whether it is security software 1.0, 2.0 or security software middleware, due to the limitations of the development unit's capabilities, it is difficult to get involved in the development of various aspects of the network monitoring system, its design ideas focus on the various security systems to consider security software The design focuses on the security software itself, rather than on the network monitoring requirements for the integration optimization of the entire security system.

In fact, when the scope of network monitoring continues to expand, massive video access and video storage rely on traditional software design already has some insurmountable bottlenecks. From the perspective of traditional software vendors, solving problems can only proceed from the software itself, and cannot The overall architecture of network monitoring perspective to consider optimization. The end result is heterogeneous, non-standard hardware, different vendor storage, networking plus security software platforms, and software that can be used to knead these hardware. It can be said that integration is also a piece of patchwork.

In the traditional security software eco-environment, software can only passively adapt to hardware, trying to build a bridge between the hardware and software in the network monitoring environment, and can not optimize the relevant components of network monitoring from the perspective of the entire network monitoring and control. These components include front-end, storage, and embedded software on network devices. Therefore, components such as streaming media server, network transfer server, and device proxy server appear to implement real-time and storage video streaming processing and signaling processing. In the face of massive multimedia information management and storage requirements, these devices are clustered and load balanced. The reliability design of fault switching and the performance bottleneck of its overall architecture have become an important factor hindering the development of network monitoring.

Another trend is that one of the characteristics of network monitoring is the exponential increase in network bandwidth and mass storage data capacity. Currently, both security monitoring and other areas of monitoring and management have begun to show multimedia features through video and audio codec technology. Applications, using converged video surveillance, video conferencing, voice communications, instant messaging, video information distribution, and other multimedia means to achieve improved management and control efficiency. At the same time, a large amount of multimedia data needs to be saved and retrieved on demand. These multimedia data fusions are Mass storage data integrated management technology is not fully grasped by general security software vendors.

Facing the rapid increase in the demand for multimedia management monitoring in the entire industry, traditional security software vendors and integrators are facing unprecedented challenges. On the one hand, they need to maintain profitability in local markets. On the other hand, they must invest a lot of R&D resources to meet the network monitoring market. The growing demand for the reliability, stability, and multimedia management of massive monitoring and management, due to the scarcity of network components such as network, multimedia, storage, and other network monitoring technologies, how to realize profitability has become these enterprises in the current economic environment. There is an urgent need for consideration.