Build The Large Scale Surveillance

Surveillance cameras has become one of the indispensable conditions in today's society. The vast amount of data generated through video surveillance has spiked in the past few years. In order to be able to collect richer data, high-definition cameras bring higher bandwidth requirements, increase in writing speed and storage capacity.

The Keys of Large Scale Surveillance

Video surveillance systems (or CCTV) have evolved significantly in the last several years. General surveillance is one of the basic uses of CCTV. When used for this purpose, the system is perhaps more of a psychological deterrence than actual physical control.

Security Efficiency

Access control, and alarms have much in common, and work with an integrated system to keep intruders out of secure areas, limit access to security-sensitive areas, remotely monitor critical areas to reduce the risk of crime and security incidents.

Properly Located

Properly located surveillance cameras can extend the range of the security staff and provide valuable incident information. The properly location can have a significant deterrent effect on property crime. The use of recorded video images has resulted in countless arrests when shared with LEA or media outlets.

Quality of Image

The most crucial consideration in a video surveillance system is the quality of the image received, and this is mainly dependent on the camera and recording equipment used.

Playback Length

The recording retained in a 10-day library as a minimum. It is not uncommon to maintain recorded images for 30 days. The longer you keep, the more information you will be able to retrieve for investigation in the future.

Define the Scale of Surveillance

The main factors to decide the scale are the quantity of the cameras and the recording days of the surveillance area, Usually, the industry which requires higher security will need to keep the recorded videos/streams longer, so that users/IT managers shall be able to playback those videos once there is any terrible incident occurring.

Playback Days

Number of Cameras

How Many Days Are Usually Kept in What Industry

Money Exchanger, Banks, and Airports, sometimes it could be longer than 90 days. While keeping the longer recorded videos/streams represents to the requirement of larger storage capacity, Here we use a common codec – H.264, HD resolution – for taking an example, and further explore, if the area size is classified, what kind of industry usually requires how many cameras, and how many days of records should they keep.

A. Private Area

Money Exchanger, Gold and Jewelry, Cinema Complex

B. Floor

Money Exchanger, Gold and Jewelry, Cinema Complex

C. Building

Private School, Bus Station, Banks, Hotel, Sport Club

D. Zone

Shopping Mall, Video Recording Center, Airports, Zoo, Prison

	Less than 50 Cams	50-1000 Cams	Over 1,000 Cams
30 Days BP	50 TB	150-3,000 TB	3000 TB~
90 Days BP	150 TB	450-9,000 TB	9,000 TB~
180 Days BP	300 TB	900-18,000 TB	18,000TB~

	Less than 50 Cams	50-1000 Cams	Over 1,000 Cams
30 Days BP	50 TB	150-3,000 TB	3000 TB~
90 Days BP	150 TB	450-9,000 TB	9,000 TB~
180 Days BP	300 TB	900-18,000 TB	18,000TB~

	Less than 50 Cams	50-1000 Cams	Over 1,000 Cams
30 Days BP	50 TB	150-3,000 TB	3000 TB~
90 Days BP	150 TB	450-9,000 TB	9,000 TB~
180 Days BP	300 TB	900-18,000 TB	18,000TB~

	Less than 50 Cams	50-1000 Cams	Over 1,000 Cams
30 Days BP	50 TB	150-3,000 TB	3000 TB~
90 Days BP	150 TB	450-9,000 TB	9,000 TB~
180 Days BP	300 TB	900-18,000 TB	18,000TB~

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Different Scale Different Deployment

QSAN provides the total solution to fulfill each scale mentioned above, and the video streaming could be either written into QSAN storage directly through iSCSI, or via CIFS or FC if there is an NVR server sitting between the cameras and the storage in the environment. Considering the scale and the usage.

XCubeNAS Rackmount series, if it is necessary to keep more days for the recorded videos, it is feasible to add expansion unit dynamically, for capacity expansion purpose. And usually, the performance requirement of this scale is not high.

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XN5112R

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Expansion Unit Support
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XCubeNAS Rackmount Series + host cards with higher throughput, and high-density expansion enclosures. By adding additional host cards, performance requirements can be met. Based on the architecture of this scale, adding 10GbE host cards can fully achieve the required throughput. It can also be used simply with the ALB (Adaptive Load Balancing) link aggregation method. And high-density expansion cabinets help extend the recording time of surveillance videos.

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Recommended Models

XN5124

Recommended Features

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Auto Tiering

XCubeSAN iSCSI series, the performance of this series model is not a problem, and it can meet the requirements of this environment; XCubeSAN series products have two onboard 10GbE network ports by default, users can use These two 10GbE network ports, combined with the high-speed performance of XCubeSAN block storage, quickly and smoothly digest a large number of video recording requirements.

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XS3324

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Remote Replication

XCubeSAN FC + iSCSI series, if the environment has the existing FC settings, it can be used in combination with the NVR server. The performance requirements of thousands of cameras will not cause any hinder to the structure of such products; The 10GbE or FC 16G host card, and the 25GbE and 32G FC host cards to be supported next, can improve the overall performance to more than 10,000MB / s.

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Recommended Models

XS5324

Recommended Features

iSCSI & Fibre Channel
Cache to Flash
In-house Performance Optimization Engine

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"It is one of the most difficult smart city projects we have been working on, and QSAN's products are our first choice, just as before. QSAN always meets all the requirements of high performance, scalability and flexibility."

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“Our jail surveillance is particularly critical because if there’s an incident and someone gets hurt, we must have a video record. That’s why we store and back up the footage, as well as our vital records, on QSAN solutions. They’ve given us ironclad performance and availability for years.”

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