Introduction

Milestone Federated Architecture is a technology that allows individual XProtect Corporate and XProtect Expert installations (sites) to be tied together in a hierarchy of federated sites.

When individual XProtect Corporate or XProtect Expert sites are tied together in a federated hierarchy, the individual sites will appear as one large system to administrators and users, while still being as manageable as individual sites.

Through Milestone Federated Architecture, users will have access to video, audio, metadata, and other resources across the individual sites in the hierarchy based on their user rights per individual site. In addition, administrators can centrally manage sites in the hierarchy through the Management Client based on administration rights on the individual sites in the hierarchy.

Milestone Federated Architecture is the perfect solution for large-scale installations covering multiple buildings, campuses, or physical locations. It provides unrestricted scaling, flexibility, and accessibility for more efficient, cost-effective video surveillance across multiple sites.

XProtect Corporate and XProtect Expert share the same architecture and components and throughout this white paper they are referred to as ‘XProtect® VMS products’.