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Welcome to the latest IP UserGroup Technical Bulletin, the portal to provide information and education opportunity regarding IP technology within the security industry.

Produced specifically to introduce networked security to those new to IP and to keep our regular viewers abreast of what is going on and where. Divided into two sections the Bulletin will allow you to link directly into the full stories or documents.

IP in Action - A collection of the latest application stories
Learn where IP is being used in real life applications and understand how the solutions have been designed and what benefits have been derived.

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Wine Retailer Reaps Benefits

Networked DVRS help England's Unwins Improve Store Security
The very characteristics that have helped make Unwins Wine Group Ltd. the largest off-trade, or take-home wine retailer in southern England also leave it more vulnerable to crime than some other types of businesses.

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Port of Tauranga, New Zealand

Heightened security measures to comply with International Maritime codes
At the forefront of the export supply chain, port of Tauranga is New Zealand's preffered export gateway and fastest growing port for imports.

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Greater Media tunes in to IP video surveillance.

Advanced protection of sophisticated radio equipment includes remote locations.
To improve the protection of their sophisticated radio equipment, Greater Media Inc. upgraded their analog videotape security with a networked solution using Milestone XProtect IP video surveillance software.

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Enhanced Security at Sydney Airport

Comprehensive network-integrated closed-circuit solution
As part of a comprehensive upgrade project to meet passenger traffic needs into the next century, Sydney Airport needed to invest in a modern digital surveillance system.

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Security Upgrade For Bedfordshire Police

For some customers, reliable and effective access control is an absolute necessity.
With some 1,900 officers and staff, Bedfordshire Police Force is, by any standards, a large and diverse organisation. To function effectively, it maintains a wide variety of premises, ranging from car pounds to forensic laboratories, as well as operating an extensive record-keeping capability and a sophisticated communications system.

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Learning Zone - a collection of white papers and other educational material

Information Library growing daily - the collection of educational and technical documents will help with that learning experience building into a useful reference.

Video/Surveillance - A New Era Is Upon Us.

The network video recording system plans to pick up where the DVR leaves off. - By Eli Gorovici, CEO, DVTel.

Analog CCTV systems for security and surveillance applications gained popularity back in the 1970s. As security challenges increased and technological innovation grew apace, analog systems proved ineffective and inefficient for all but the smallest security environments. Digital video recorder technology emerged in the mid 90s to provide end users a high-performance, cost-effective alternative to the VCR. The DVR offered a number of compelling benefits over analog recording, including image superiority, increased storage space, near-instant access to key information, reduced maintenance time and costs, and flexible recording control.

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Network Video : A new installation

This document provides the necessary information to understand and design a digital, network based video installation, refered to as a network video system. It covers the user benefits derived from a digital solution, factors to consider when implementing such a system, and components that make up a top-functioning digital system.

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Beyond DVR's : Digital Video Storage

Digital recording technologies have greatly influenced the field of CCTV: no wear and tear, costly maintenance or endless tape rewinding.

Digital video recording has brought crisp video images and instantaneous playback of footage, among many other improvements. But is this the end? What will be next in the field of digital video recording for the CCTV industry?

This paper introduces future concepts of digital video recording based on information technology (IT) infrastructure, namely networking and introduces network video recording (NVR).

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A Beginners Guide to Network Security

With the explosion of the public Internet and e commerce, private computers, and computer networks, if not adequately secured, are increasingly vulnerable to damaging attacks.

This guide provides you with a general overview of the most common network security threats and the steps you and your organization can take to protect yourselves from threats and ensure that the data traveling across your networks is safe.

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