Around the world, talented professionals are working tirelessly to design, implement, and manage video surveillance systems that help make the world a safer place.  They rely on LSI for storage technologies to deliver the performance and capacities required in one of today’s most demanding applications.

As  surveillance moves from film to digital image capture -- and from simple image capture to image recognition -- and as camera connects grow and the areas under surveillance increase,  so does the value LSI has to offer. Video applications in general require a “big pipe” to capture high quality camera feeds in real time. That requirement is often multiplied many times because a single system may capture input from dozens of cameras.  

With the ability to write video data faster than 2.5Gb/s, LSI second-generation 6Gb/s MegaRAID® SAS 9265-8i and 9285-8e controller cards are the right choice for serious installations. The StreamFusion Plus firmware, a feature available on the 3ware® 9750 series of RAID controllers, can deliver breakthroughs in high-load, multi-stream video environments by dynamically balancing the bandwidth across multiple streams to avoid dropping frames and optimizing the RAID caching algorithm to maintain performance.

While writing multiple streams of uninterrupted video data is crucial, so is the capacity to store it for meaningful periods of time. How long depends on where you are, what kind of video data you are collecting, and how it will be used.  For example, California state law allows slip and fall claims to be filed up to 2 years after the event, dramatically extending the time organizations must retain video evidence.

A single camera can generate 300MB of video data per week. Large video data storage requirements can take advantage of the LSI SAS Switch to scale out capacity, while maintaining 6Gb/s SAS performance, without the costs and latencies of more expensive technologies.

For clean, multi-camera video capture and sophisticated applications like real-time recognition and analytics, the performance, capacity, and advanced features of LSI storage technologies can make a big difference.