Security planners face some challenges to build a comprehensive video system for enterprise and factories

Today as network becomes an inseparable part of our life, video surveillance servers are no longer standalone, isolated, or purely analog-based. It has become a component fully merged in the network of an enterprise. To set up an IP-based video surveillance system, network infrastructure is crucial. Bandwidth, QoS, info security, network services, and virtualization are all the key conditions to an enterprise-level IP network that supports video. Hence for a good design, the concern and decision making has transited from the conventional viewpoint of a physical equipment manager of security to those of the executives of finance and IT profession.