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CCTV: a nice little earner for the IT crowd

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Vivotek IP camera If you take look at the product portfolio of a networking company such as Cisco, there are some things that you would never have imagined seeing a decade ago. The diversity is pretty immense and includes storage, applications servers, teleconferencing services such as WebEx, and even home wireless audio gizmos from its Linksys brand. Yet one of the most interesting is video – and specifically, CCTV.

The UK has between two and four million CCTV cameras in operation. It’s hard to pin the exact number down as there is no requirement to register them, so figures are based on somewhat flaky sales data. What is certain is that the bulk of these cameras use analogue technology which causes a lot of problems in terms of quality, accessibility and reliability.

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Tags: CCTV, Cisco, D-Link, Linksys

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All the week’s reviews

Friday, February 13th, 2009

The big launch of the week was AMD’s move to its AM3 platform. Finally allowing the use of DDR3 with its CPUs, we received a motherboard and several new triple and quad-core processor models, which we promptly fired through our intensive benchmark suite with pretty impressive results.

At the more budget end of the scale we saw HP’s Compaq CQ2000, a beautifully designed small-form-factor PC with a 20in TFT for a mouth-watering price of just £286 exc VAT. We’ve seen cheap mini-PCs and nettops before, but this is the first we’d really want in our living room.

We also reviewed Toshiba’s latest business model, the Tecra R110-112, which came in bright white with a vast array of security features and reasonable power too. (more…)

Tags: AMD, Cakewalk, Creative, Dell, HP, Linksys, Steinberg, toshiba

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