Hot Diggety! Nick Silkey was rumored to have written: > Axis is king. They have a ton of models, most do record-on-motion and > PoE. You also have options on where to dump recordings iirc (local or > some sort of net storage).
Axis rocks... sort of. Feature-wise, they're sweet. But... What happens when you have cameras that has seen EOSL (end of support life)? Meaning, no more security patches? We had some great IP-based security cameras but we discovered they were Linux based and wide open to multiple vulns thanks to our vuln scanner. The fact they were Linux based is not inherently a problem *BUT*: Without any further update available from the vendor, we were forced to retire (prematurely, IMO) an otherwise perfectly good camera. :( So I guess the trick is to keep your product refresh cycles for security cameras closely tied to the vendor's support lifecycle for that product. Seems obvious, I know, but bears repeating and reinforcing. -Dan P.S. No criticism of Axis here, really; they can't realistically be expected to support everything indefinitely. But it was a little disconcerting for us to find out we apparently had about 3 or 4 years to amortize the initial investment on these gear. (We'd hoped for at least a bit longer.) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
