Comments on: Cisco Buys VideoSpy Gear Maker http://gigaom.com/2006/03/08/cisco-buys-videospy-gear-maker/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:04:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John Honovich http://gigaom.com/2006/03/08/cisco-buys-videospy-gear-maker/#comment-115615 Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:22:34 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/03/08/cisco-buys-videospy-gear-maker/#comment-115615 March’s architecture and key markets (banking, retail, transport) is fundamentally different from Sypixx’s strengths.

Cisco/Sypixx will be a strong competitor to Verint, Broadware and Pelco which all offer very similiar distrubted architectures for integrating legazy analog systems.

The deal is questionable in at least one major element – surveillance networks are moving very rapidly to IP cameras. Connecting legacy analog cameras to Sypixx encoders is neither cheaper nor significantly more effectively than simply replacing legacy analog cameras for IP cameras.

Just because everything may be moving to IP networks, it is not immediately appearant to me that, by itself, this is a strong move.

]]> By: Mark Evans http://gigaom.com/2006/03/08/cisco-buys-videospy-gear-maker/#comment-115614 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:00:57 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/03/08/cisco-buys-videospy-gear-maker/#comment-115614 looks like this deal will put cisco in competition with march networks.

]]> By: Mark Evans http://gigaom.com/2006/03/08/cisco-buys-videospy-gear-maker/#comment-115613 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:00:26 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/03/08/cisco-buys-videospy-gear-maker/#comment-115613 looks like this acquisition puts cisco in competition with march networks.

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