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Article: Video surveillance drives wireless bandwidth boost.
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- Network World Middle East
- Article date:
- July 16, 2009
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Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff)
Ask Malcolm Gravette what is driving the need for more wireless bandwidth, and the systems application manager for ADT Security will tell you: It's megapixel video.
Gravette works for the federal systems division of ADT in Broken Arrow, Okla., where he helps install a variety of security systems in military bases, seaports and airports for federal agencies and defense branches.
For possible deployment in those settings, he will begin testing new point-to-point and point-to-multipoint radio base stations from Proxim Wireless that would increase bandwidth capacity by five times over existing gear.
"The biggest driver of this need ...