H.264 video compression capability is built into all the latest generation IP cameras from Axis Communications.
Cue the video … 
Virgin Media are reducing the price of their 50Mbps service to just £28 per month from September 1st (if you also take a Virgin phone line).
This price/performance milestone is a significant step along the road to one big happy high performance inter-network.
As IP camera specialists we can see – “Any picture, from any place, and any time …” – and these performance boosts continue to make it an improving experience!
Virgin have also announced trials of 10Mbps uplinks – bearing in mind that it is the uplink speed of your camera (out there somewhere on the internet) that is often the performance limiting factor, then this too bodes well for future performance.
They have also begun trials of 200Mbps internet download speeds!
Not so long ago, in a land consisting of many peer-to-peer networks, 10Mbps was the fastest that you could connect to a machine six feet away …
Virgin claims that at 50Mbps you’ll be able to download a music track in just one second!
PC Pro announce Virgin 50Mbps price drop.
Think Broadband announce Virgin 50Mbps price drop.
PC Pro on Virgin’s 200Mbps trials.
You need to wait just two more weeks …
Unless anybody can tell us all where to sign up sooner?
iCatcher Go is a new CCTV App for the iPhone from Icode, the makers of the popular iCatcher Console CCTV software.
iCatcher Go allows you to connect directly to your IP cameras from your iPhone, or to access your iCatcher Console CCTV software.
It’s available now from the Apple iPhone Apps Store for just 59p. Yes, you did read that correctly – 99 cents / or 59p!!
Searching Apple’s App Store online is a bit of a nightmare, so we recommend that you start up iTunes on your PC/Mac, then click on iTunes Store in the left column, then at the top right search for ‘icatcher go’.
Users can stream high speed iPeg from their iCatcher Console machines or high quality MJPEG, from a wide range of IP Cameras.
IP camera support includes Axis, Mobotix, Panasonic and Y-Cam IP cameras.
iCatcher Go allows high speed remote viewing of CCTV and web cameras from your iPhone or iPod Touch. iCatcher Go can either connect to your iCatcher CCTV software or directly to your IP cameras.
iCatcher Go utilises Icode’s high speed, low bandwidth streaming protocol ‘ipeg’. Mobile views of your iCatcher Console have never been faster. You can stream high speed ipeg from iCatcher Console or high quality MPEG/JPEG from a wide range of IP cameras.
If you’d like to trial Icode’s iCatcher Console software, follow this link to download a free 21-day iCatcher Console trial.
The Axis Q1755 HD TV Network Camera received a glowing review in a recent test by PC Pro magazine:
If you want surveillance functions such as clear facial identification or the ability to read car number plates at a distance then the Q1755 is the IP camera of choice. It’s pricey, but its image quality is superb and the range of monitoring and recording features won’t be beaten.
And:
After installing the camera to monitor a nearby car park and associated access roads, we can safely say the Q1755 delivers the best image quality we’ve ever seen. Focus is sharp, colour balance is very good and detail at maximum optical zoom is impressive. On full zoom, car number plates could be clearly read at 60 yards and, dependent on weather conditions, could generally be made out at more than 120 yards away.
And:
IP camera technology has recently come on in leaps and bounds, but Axis’ new Q1755 takes this to a higher plane.
Read their full review here.
For further details see our webshop – Axis Q1755 Network Camera
As a quick follow-up to yesterday’s Post about ACTi’s NVR software upgrade, this slideshow from ACTi should further help your understanding of its capabilities and how the different versions fit together to manage even the largest corporate IP CCTV requirements:
If this raises any further queries, please feel free to use the comments section below, or our ACTi Forum.
