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You have to be a partner to access the online tools. Where are you located?

Does you WAN address start with a 192 or something else? Try trying www.ipchicken.com in a browser on a computer that is on your LAN. Does the number that shows on the screen match the WAN address if the the ISP provided you?

Have you used the Avigilon training? You can use the system design tool to find out how many servers you will need.

Why do you need to know?

FYI if you have 250 2MP cameras you bandwidth will be a lot more then 500Mbps. A 1080P will normally give you 4-6Mbps per camera so with 250 cameras you are looking at around 1500Mbps of max incoming bandwidth. At that level of bandwidth you will need more then 6 servers if you want room to grow.

Just quoted a project with 1300Mbps incoming bandwidth and we are quoting internal storage for this project.

Have 2 volumes setup one with 4 year old 500GB WB Blacks for iSCSI storage and another volume with 3TB WD Reds for NAS/iSCSI. I got this just to test iSCSI with Avigilon and other VMSs. I would not use this unit for enterprise customers but iSCSI has worked very well with Avigilon.

Don't you need to know what goal is of the camera before you can say which one is better?

I have been using a Synology DS1812+ for my Avigilon storage for the last week or so. Right now I have 100Mbps ish streaming to it and I have had no issues. I really like how easy it is to expand your storage with Avigilon. So far I am very happy.

Better at what?

You can do what you want with a VPN

Smith..... Brivo is a hosted system that uses IP readers and controllers

You just gave me another reason not to use Dahua This is not an issue with our VMS solutions and I suspect most if not all main stream VMS solutions.

Or you can turn HDSM to Max Where is the setting? "change display quality setting" in the client software between the PTZ controls and matrix setttings

Or you can turn HDSM to Max

Due steams are always sent to the server.... The server automatically hands out the appropriate streams, saving processor load on the client machines and network traffic on the corporate LAN/WAN.

Why would you want to stream full res in a matrix? Your just wasting bandwidth. Automatically?

What are you getting at?

Sure if I wanted to I could put 144 5MP cameras on all four monitors or 144 1080P cameras. Hell I could do 144 29MP cameras on 4 monitors if I wanted to.

Avigilon and Axis.... D1, 720P, 1080, 3MP and 5MP. 10FPS, H.264 for all HD cameras and JPEG2000 for D1... Max bitrate 12Mbps Dual NVIDIA cards

I have a customer with 230 cameras using 4 1080P monitors on one client machine. They can display 144 cameras at one time over all four monitors.

The software is FREE you pay a licenses to connect a device (cameras and encoders) and you have three difference versions of the software to chose from depending on your system size. There are no server or client licensing costs.

Big expensive server + lots of prep/setup time + recurring fees for support = Milestone less CPU power lower cost server + plug and play + free 24/7 support = Avigilon

Here are the different features of Avigilons software: http://avigilon.com/#/products/avigilon-control-center/editions/ Again Enterprise can support 128 cameras but your limiting factor is bandwidth and hardware. example: (not real numbers) You might one get 40 1080P cameras running on one server if your running max FPS and bit rate. To get 128 1080P cameras on one server you would have to reduce frame rate and bandwidth. As you can see total camera counts on servers mean nothing it is all about bandwidth. Avigilon does motion detection on camera no on the server and if you use there cameras the system is plug and play. This saves a substantial amount of time installing systems making you more profitable and saves the customer money. Something Milestone can not offer.

Yes... What is your budget?