Bosch Security Systems: Digital Recording Range. Bosch Security Systems is introducing a new addition to its Digital Recording Range.

The Divar XF Digital Recorder offers real-time recording and playback in full 4CIF resolution, providing higher quality images for both live viewing and recorded video.

Moreover, Bosch’s advanced H.264 compression technology minimises system bandwidth and storage requirements, reducing storage costs by as much as by up to 30% compared with systems that use traditional MPEG-4 encoding.

The company’s new Video Recording Manager (VRM) provides centralised management and monitoring of video servers, cameras and iSCSI storage units within an IP-based CCTV network.

The VRM 1.0 significantly enhances the management of storage capacity by treating storage blocks within the system at the logical or virtual level rather than the physical level. Virtualisation of storage blocks allows for complete flexibility and scalability in the allocation of storage throughout the network.

Recorded video is distributed over all available iSCSI RAID units on the network, rather than recording on a single storage device directly connected to an NVR. It also provides enhanced data availability with the possibility to automatically re-route video to alternative iSCSI units in the event of an array failure.

The iSCSI RAID storage units can, moreover, be located anywhere, either stacked high in a secure centralised IT-managed facility as with conventional NVRs, located in secure cupboards as distributed network-attached storage where they are less vulnerable to a single physical attack, or as direct-attached storage coupled with a Bosch video encoder/decoder.

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