ElecTech Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 Is Dahua suitable for big IP installations and does anyone have any experience using there 256CH NVR? Seems they are low end of the market in some peoples eyes but they have the scope to do the big installs too....? Never used them for big installs but there low end kit seems good. If not - what are the leading brands for a decent size IP installation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whistle Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 I have sold and installed a large system using Windows servers and Milestone Enterprise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9651 Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 We are about to use dahua for all our IP stuff now. We did use genie, but it's too limited for what we need and we have had quite a few faulty cameras..... Currently have a 64 channel on the bench and impressed, twin LAN, twin hdmi etc. Also like the cms software. Jut need to try it monitored but I'm sure it will be fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElecTech Posted May 11, 2016 Author Share Posted May 11, 2016 5 minutes ago, 9651 said: We are about to use dahua for all our IP stuff now. We did use genie, but it's too limited for what we need and we have had quite a few faulty cameras..... Currently have a 64 channel on the bench and impressed, twin LAN, twin hdmi etc. Also like the cms software. Jut need to try it monitored but I'm sure it will be fine Good to hear ... I like there CMS too, looks professional yet easy enough to use. I don't like genie ... Not got a main reason I just do - nothing I can put my finger on but dislike it as a brand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9651 Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 Genie is OK but personally don't like the user interface, bit quirky and looks old fashioned/cheap. Also the same with the cms picture quality of the IP stuff is fine mind, juts seemed to get lots of failures on the gunmetal domes for some reason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belfastengineer Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 48 minutes ago, ElecTech said: Is Dahua suitable for big IP installations and does anyone have any experience using there 256CH NVR? Seems they are low end of the market in some peoples eyes but they have the scope to do the big installs too....? Never used them for big installs but there low end kit seems good. If not - what are the leading brands for a decent size IP installation? I would be very wary of putting 256 cameras on one NVR what is the throughput on one of these. We keep on coming up against people who recommend putting 50+ 3 & 4mp cameras on 64ch NVRS which have 150mb total throughput which just does not work. For our larger systems we use Avigilon and build our own servers never has any issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QSXS Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 I would be looking as spanning the system across multiple switches, servers and some form of fallback redundancy. So a single Switch / Server fault does not take you whole system down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpat Systems Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 Another vote for Milestone + Dell Server We've recently created a Cisco blade "security" server with router/firewall, VMWare with servers for Milestone CCTV, Paxton Net2 for access. Nice one "box" solution Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james.wilson Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 alpat whats your thoughts om virtualbox? Quote securitywarehouse Security Supplies from Security Warehouse Trade Members please contact us for your TSI vetted trade discount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belfastengineer Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 Have any Milestone users also used Avigilon? would like to know opinions on what performs better. Not used Milstone but looks good kit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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