I know this isn't strictly networking, but I figure that a lot of shops out there combine network, telecom and surveillance into the network shop, given the fairly tight integration that's needed. Also as a heads up for folks that might not be aware.
We learned of the accelerated EOS announcement of VSM this week and are looking at having to do something with our sizeable plant. We had planned some simple hardware refreshes soon, but obviously that's now much more complicated. I'm really not sure about migrating to a Meraki solution, as the EOS notice is trying to encourage. The two don't even seem to be addressing the same market segment.
We have a pretty considerable deployment of Cisco IP cameras currently, several hundred cameras of various models and multiple 3rd party units as well. Almost the entire plant is H.264. We have a half dozen VSM's and four media servers on our main stack, all virtualized on UCS hardware. A forklift of our cameras is not a plausible solution for us as it would take years and millions of bucks we don't have. Many years ago, we did chat some 3rd parties up for server side, but when they started talking about having to write custom drivers to run the Cisco cams, we knew we didn't want to be a one-off.
I'm curious where my fellow enterprise NE's are at for surveillance plants this large. Plusses, minuses and any tidbits of advice for migrating away from Cisco while retaining Cisco camera support?
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