BANDWIDTH & STORAGE CALCULATOR
Get quick, accurate estimations for your project’s network bandwidth requirements and the storage space you need for archiving video. Works for any number of cameras.
5-Year Warranty
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BCDVIDEO
- All Aurora, Nova & SuperNova Series Servers come with 5-year on-site warranties (including all hardware)
& no RMAs necessary. - Next business day response.
- Warranties backed by HPE Certified Engineers.
- $0 Cost of ownership for 5 yrs.
- System never leaves the end-user facility.
COMPETITORS
- 3 to 5-year standard limited warranty with caveats.
- Unknown cost of ownership after 1 year.
Guaranteed Calculations
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- Guarantees calculations for storage and server builds (based upon
provided specifications). - No liability to the integrator/end-user.
COMPETITORS
- No calculation guarantee.
- Integrator is liable for all costs if storage is incorrect or performance is not optimal.
CERTIFICATION
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- Genetec certified BCDVideo’s Nova Series for 700mb throughput (500 in, 200 out) allowing 40% more cameras per server, and protected growth.
- Milestone test results proved BCDVideo servers to be the best they ever tested.
- Awarded Milestone’s Technology Partner of the Year, w/out selling their software.
COMPETITORS
- No other competitor, including Dell and HPE, is certified by Genetec above 400mb throughput.
High Reliability
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- Our servers have the highest reliability in the security industry.
- Active Health is built into every one of our servers to proactively monitor over 1,600 parameters.
- Mission Center System Monitoring (MCSM) is available on all BCDVideo servers.
- MCSM graphs 24 parameters including CPU memory, hard drive, network, temperature, and logs performance for up to 48 hours.
- Alerts can be sent prior to hardware failures, to ensure zero downtime.
COMPETITORS
- Do not provide as much monitoring capability as BCDVideo.
Smart Technologies
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- The only video server in the world that includes SMARTtechnologies.
- Quick uptime with no need for optical media.
- Allows rebuilds to be done remotely with SMARTrestoration.
- SMARTvault saves config and license files.
COMPETITORS
- No other video server has SMARTtechnologies.
AWARD-WINNING TECH SUPPORT
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- Voted the Technical Support Stellar Service Gold Winner by Security Sales & Integration subscribers in 2015.
- Our tech support is certified for both hardware and VMS.
- Get tech support easily, in one phone call.
- Receive remote support (with connectivity) to reduce down time.
- Labor costs are significantly lowered as a result of all of the above.
COMPETITORS
- Troubleshooting may require multiple calls and result in an inability to determine the problem’s source.
- After an on-site service call, the integrator still needs to “roll a truck” to tweak the system.
Customized Features
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- Servers come configured with all hardware, patches, current BIOS, and VMS, saving valuable set-up time.
- At no charge, BCDVideo installs VMS license keys, NIC’s IP addresses, and registers all parties with the VMS company.
COMPETITORS
- Lack of VMS knowledge, therefore not able to implement it.
Server Optimization
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- Built specifically for video - not an IT server trying to work for video.
- Array Controllers are used for Aurora, Nova & SuperNova servers, allowing high write capability.
- Nova and SuperNova servers are engineered to only accept the top 10% performing 12G SAS drives.
COMPETITORS
- Most competitors, including Dell & HPE, use IT/data servers, not video servers.
- Many manufacturers don’t use array controllers or top performing hard drives, in order to save on cost.
Fast Delivery
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- 10-Day typical delivery time following receipt of orders. (14 days for international.)
- No configuration fee.
- System ready to run.
COMPETITORS
- Charge for configuration.
- Delivery is typically 35-40 days.
- Integrator needs to load VMS.