Intermedia announced today that Hosted PBX, its cloud-based voice service, will now be available as a new offering at ADI locations across the United States. Designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses, Intermedia’s Hosted PBX phone service will allow ADI dealers to sell a cloud-based phone service on a per-seat basis.
The move to IP communications has created new power requirements, but also has fostered new power capabilities. Get answers to these 12 common questions about power for IP security.
Another benefit of the shift to IP is that more information can be communicated across the network than with analog systems. Managed PoE and UPS systems use this capability to send alerts about the system.
Many manufacturers in the security industry have worked to develop eco-friendly products, many of which use less energy and are made from environmentally friendly materials. In some cases, these products also save costs while increasing efficiency.
Software House, part of the Security Products business unit of Tyco, announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with ELERTS Corp. to integrate the ELERTS Lock-It-Down (LID) mobile app with the C•CURE 9000 security and event management system.
With projected January-to-April revenues up 42 percent this year over last, 2014 is shaping up to be a banner year for systems integrator Advantech Inc., based in Dover, Del. Efficiency and a greater level of teamwork between the company’s sales, installation and service employees have had a lot to do with that.
When the Statue of Liberty reopened to the public on July 4, 2013, it included a new surveillance system.
March 18, 2014
As part of the refurbishment, N.Y.-based integrator Total Recall Corp. had reached out to the U.S. Park Police, National Park Service (NPS) and the Department of Interior (DOI) with a state-of-the-art surveillance system proposal that would be designed, installed and maintained as a donation by the company.
Amidst a sea of sports fans swarming MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., the Seahawks were not the only ones exhaling. For the scads of security personnel charged with ensuring the safety of NFL players, fans and the many other people behind-the-scenes at the first outdoor, cold-weather Super Bowl, the real win was in pulling off the mega sporting event without incident.
Technology certainly has changed our lives. I remember family car trips in the 1960s when we had three kids fighting in the back seat while my father insisted that we make 350 miles between bathroom stops.
It wasn’t that long ago that the majority of the security industry said they’d never use the Internet because it wasn’t safe and couldn’t be relied upon.
It wasn’t that long ago that the majority of the security industry said they’d never use the Internet because it wasn’t safe and couldn’t be relied upon. Some question its reliability today, yet POTS lines leave your home or commercial locations, go out to the Internet and come back to a POTS line for the final mile, jumping from POTS to the Internet along the route.