City
of Manchester Opts for Genetec’s Omnicast in Major System Upgrade
Genetec has announced that the City of Manchester,
United Kingdom, selected Omnicast 4.1 for a major system upgrade project.
With approximately 700 analog cameras spread throughout the city, the
City of Manchester is gradually migrating to IP, and all cameras will
eventually be managed by the IP platform.
Working with C-ways Limited, a UK-based IT Integrator, the City of Manchester
selected Omnicast for the flexibility and benefits offered by its new
Federation feature. 'Where before we could only use either unicast or
multicast functions, the Federation will allow us to use both those functionalities
simultaneously, offering better management of bandwidth,' claims Mr. David
Walsh, Technical Installations Manager from the City of Manchester’s
Command and Control Centre. With five control centres located throughout
the city to manage video from their older fixed analogue systems, the
Federation also has given the City of Manchester the ability to reroute
all video back to one central monitoring station through IP. As each system
is progressively migrated and rerouted back to the central monitoring
station, there will no longer be a need for the other control centres,
thus contributing to significantly reduced operation costs.
Additionally, total flexibility of the system has given them the freedom
to work with their existing infrastructure and any hardware providers
they deem fit. According to Mr. Walsh 'this is very important when spending
public money.'
One month into the implementation of the Omnicast system, the City of
Manchester has already migrated 30 cameras from the Greater Manchester
Police and 20 cameras from the city’s largest municipal park over
to the Omnicast platform. According to Mr. Walsh 'Unlike an analogue installation,
the systems were up and running within hours and our partners could not
be happier with the new system and its many benefits.' Although in initial
installation stages, the City of Manchester has plans to continue populating
the Omnicast platform with existing cameras and is also looking into third-party
integration with video and audio analytics partners.
Genetec is pleased that initial implementations are going smoothly and
the system is offering the City of Manchester exactly what it needed.
'Our development process has ensured that customers such as the City of
Manchester will benefit from everything innovative security technology
has to offer and we are glad to be a part of providing it,' claims Cavan
Kendall, UK Sales Manager at Genetec.
Web: http://www.genetec.com
