The Cisco® Video Surveillance Services Platform with Fibre Channel Connections offers organizations an innovative choice for network digital video recording and playback in deployments that require storing storage of large amounts of video data. This device provides Fibre Channel connections to external storage arrays, allowing you to store a virtually unlimited amount of video data and to view recorded video streams any time, anywhere, from any device.
Fully integrated with Cisco Video Surveillance Stream Manager Software and providing high-quality MPEG-4 encoding, the Services Platform with Fibre Channel Connections offers a wide array of features in a single component that is easy to use and deploy. It provides a robust, scalable, and flexible way to replace traditional analog or digital video recorders in a variety of video surveillance deployments. Figure 1 shows the Cisco Video Surveillance Services Platform with Fibre Channel Connections.
Figure 1. Figure 1 Cisco Video Surveillance Services Platform with Fibre Channel Connections
Applications
With flexible deployment options and configuration capabilities, the Cisco Video Surveillance Services Platform with Fibre Channel Connections is an important component of a video surveillance solution for a wide range of deployments. This small but powerful device enables storage of large amounts of high-quality video data, and is ideal for organizations such as gaming, enterprise, and retail that have the following storage requirements:
• Large amounts of high-quality video images
• Large amounts of video data in third-party data center disk arrays
Features
Primary features and benefits of the Cisco Video Surveillance Services Platform with Fibre Channel Connections include:
• Fibre Channel ports (2 Gbps) for output of video streams to external storage arrays
• Linux operating system support
• Includes Cisco Video Surveillance Stream Manager Server Software
• 19-in. rack mountable
• Small (1-RU) form factor
• Inputs from remote networked Cisco Video Surveillance IP Gateway Encoders
• Inputs from supported IP cameras
• MPEG-4 encoding
• Simultaneous video recording and playback
• Multiple simultaneous playback sessions
• Video export to external media, such as CD
• Time, date, and event searches
Product Architecture
The Cisco Video Surveillance Services Platform with Fibre Channel Connections is designed for video surveillance deployments that implement standards-based external storage arrays with Fibre Channel Connections. Figure 2 shows an example of this device in such a deployment.
Figure 2. Cisco Video Surveillance Services Platform with Fibre Channel Connections in a Video Surveillance Deployment
Figure 3 shows the rear panel of the Cisco Video Surveillance Services Platform with SCSI.
Figure 3. Cisco Video Surveillance Services Platform with Fibre Channel Connections (Rear Panel)
Product Specifications
Table 1 provides video performance specifications for the Cisco Video Surveillance Services Platform with Fibre Channel Connections.
Table 1. Video Performance
Feature
Description
Input
IP (64 kbps, 8 Mbps per channel)
Output
IP (64 kbps, 8 Mbps per channel)
Compression
• MPEG-4
• ISO/IEC 14496-2-1999 (Simple Profile)
Resolution
NTSC
PAL
D1
720 x 480
720 x 572
4CIF
704 x 480
704 x 572
2CIF
704 x 240
704 x 288
CIF
352 x 240
352 x 288
Frame Rate
Up to 30 fps (NTSC), up to 25 fps (PAL)
Table 2 provides mechanical and environmental specifications for the Cisco Video Surveillance Services Platform with Fibre Channel Connections.
Table 2. Mechanical and Environmental Specifications
Feature
Description
Rack Unit (RU)
1 RU
Video Storage
External
Hard Disks
Two 80-GB hard disks for operating system and applications only
Connectivity
• Two Fibre Channel ports (2 Gbps per channel, full-duplex) for mass storage devices
• One Ethernet port, 10/100BASE-T for network connectivity
• Three serial ports (2 RJ-45 ports for video keyboards, 1 DB9 port)
Table 3 provides ordering information for the Cisco Video Surveillance Services Platform with Fibre Channel Connections. To place an order, visit the Cisco Ordering Home Page.
Table 3. Ordering Information
Product
Part Number
Cisco Video Surveillance Services Platform with Fibre Channel Connections for external storage (includes two 5-meter LC/LC fiber-optic cables)
CIVS-SP1R-2FBCH
Service and Support
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