Press Release – Cisco Select Certification

PRESS RELEASE

Press Contact:
David Backe
Micro Networks     
202-683-6171
marketing@micronetworks.biz

Micro Networks Achieves Select Certification from Cisco USA 

21365 Clappertown Drive, Ashburn, VA – 09-11-2011 – Micro Networks announced today it has achieved Select Certification from Cisco.  The Select Certification recognizes Cisco® resale channel partners that focus on meeting the technology and services needs of small businesses.

Cisco’s portfolio of  both Small Business and Small Business Professional Series products directly complement and enhance  Micro Networks Systems Design, Sales, Installation, and Support of end-to-end communications and physical security networks. 

“The Cisco Select Certification was created in response to customer demand for channel partners capable of designing and implementing Cisco solutions purpose-built for small businesses,” said Andrew Sage, vice president of Worldwide Small Business Sales at Cisco. “With the Select Certification, Micro Networks has made an investment in obtaining the training, skills and knowledge necessary to play a pivotal role in meeting this growing demand.”

To earn Select Certification, Micro Networks fulfilled the training and exam requirements for the Cisco Small Business Specialization.  Micro Networks also met the personnel, training and post sales support requirements set forth by Cisco. 

The Cisco Resale Channel Program provides a framework for channel partners to build the sales, technical and Cisco Lifecycle Services skills required to deliver Cisco solutions to end customers. Through the program’s specializations and certifications, Cisco recognizes a channel partner’s expertise in deploying solutions based on Cisco advanced technologies and services. Using a third-party audit process, the program validates channel partner qualifications such as technology skills, business best practices, customer satisfaction, and presales and post sales support capabilities — critical factors for customers choosing a trusted channel partner.  

About Micro Networks             

Micro Networks is headquartered in Ashburn, VA. and serves the entire Mid-Atlantic Region.   Our goal is to deliver seamless design, implementation, and support to customers requiring both simple and sophisticated communications  solutions.

• Structured Cabling Plant
• Unified Communications
• Wireless (WLAN)
• Video Surveillance
• Access Control
• Music & Paging

For more information about this topic or to schedule meeting with our design and engineering team, please call 202-683-6171 or visit our website at http://www.micronetworks.biz

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IP Networked Surveillance Video – Capabilities

Design Elements:
Micro Networks is vendor neutral and offers its clients the most recent and reliable technology offerings in the security marketplace today.  This allows clients the ability to customize their solutions from the myriad of commercial off the shelf (COTS) surveillance products thus allowing for greater integration possibilities with future technologies. The use of standard hardware and software products from the world’s leading security systems providers ensures the client has long-term support and continued upgrades as features and technologies evolve.   

Surveillance Cameras:
Network IP Surveillance Cameras can be place wherever there is a network connection. Power can be supplied by a camera power supply or Power over Ethernet (PoE) injector, eliminating the need for additional cabling. Our preferred range of IP Surveillance Cameras offers bandwidth saving functionality. Captured video can be compressed and streamed as Motion JPEG, MPEG-4 or H.264 using various networking protocols. In most cases this allows for the use of our clients existing Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN), Micro Networks also provides expansion and upgrades of network infrastructure.

 Network cameras provide a web server, FTP (File Transfer Protocol), email functionality, and includes other IP Network and security protocols. Most IP cameras today also provide event management and intelligent video functionality such as motion detection, audio detection, active tampering alarm and guard watch. Two way audio options are also available.  One further technology is IP Mega Pixel surveillance cameras; for applications that require detailed images these cameras deliver one million or more pixels. Camera housing options include Indoor/Outdoor IP66, Vandal Resistant, Infrared and Heater Blower.

Monitoring of Video:
Viewing of live and recorded video can be accomplished through web-based video management software installed on the recording server. Viewing client software is installed on other computers locally or remotely at viewing stations located on a separate network. Video can be displayed on a standard computer screen or on an HDTV wall display spanning multiple screens showing all cameras at the same time.

 Scalability of video management software in most cases is limited by hardware capacity rather than the software. The more robust the server(s) the more IP Cameras and Video storage it can handle.

Server:
Utilizing network video products with an open interface that are supported by a good selection of application software and video management software, Micro Networks can engineer a Network Video Recorder (NVR) or PC Based Server to mange cameras and video storage over LAN/WAN networks. Dual Socket and Raid configurations greatly enhance server performance. Server clustering can provide redundancy in the event of catastrophic failure of a server.

Storage requirements vary depending on number of cameras, recording rules, video compression and number of days to store captured video. Calculations can be performed based on this information. Beyond direct attached storage, requirements for expanded storage can be accomplished with Network-attached storage (NAS) or Storage area network (SAN).

Segmenting a LAN into a VALN enhance security by only allowing specific groups in the network to  exchanging data or access certain resources, such as archived video. This functionality is supported by most network switches. Secure access to the system is accomplished through authentication and authorization. The user/device identifies itself to the network and the remote end by a user name and password, which are then verified before the device is allowed in the system. User are assigned to groups and granted different access and privilege levels such as Admin, Operator, or Viewer. Cameras can also be configured to only allow access to the IP address of the server hosting the camera management software. Transfer of video data can be encrypted using HTTPS or SSL/TLS making it possible for video to be securely viewed using a web browser.