Cisco: Connected Physical Security product portfolio. Cisco announced key additions to its Connected Physical Security product portfolio, delivering new capabilities in IP-based video surveillance and electronic access control that ease the convergence of information technology and physical security by allowing customers to integrate with existing physical security systems and IT infrastructures.

The announcement features new IP cameras and Cisco‘s first access control solution. Together, these offerings enhance situational awareness for making appropriate decisions on security actions.

They extend the supplier‘s solution portfolio to help enable customers to establish cost-effective, modular physical security infrastructures that are best-in-class and easily interoperable.

These latest physical security offerings support the company‘s vision of offering a single unified security product suite that enables users to integrate all security operations within the IP network.

Utilising the network as a scalable platform for integrating security provides businesses with several benefits, such as operational flexibility, greater protection capabilities, lower cost of ownership, and reduced risk.

The new IP cameras are scheduled for availability in May 2008. The new Physical Access Control (PAC) system is scheduled for availability in June 2008.

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