Introduction

Milestone Interconnect is a unique concept that allows all of Milestone’s video management software (VMS) products to be interconnected with Milestone’s premium VMS XProtect Corporate. This allows the design of large-scale and geographically dispersed video surveillance installations, where each independent surveillance site can be designed with the required functionality and cost in mind, while still offering the benefits of a centralized surveillance installation.

In some respects, Milestone Interconnect is similar to Milestone Federated Architecture. However, the way the different sites communicate is different, and Milestone Interconnect supports a wider selection of Milestone’s VMS products and offers several additional features:

• Support for using low-end XProtect products on dedicated hardware, for instance in vehicles

• Cost-efficient deployment by interconnecting Milestone products designed for the small and midsize business (SMB) market

• Retrieval of video, audio, and metadata recordings from interconnected sites to the central XProtect Corporate site, including over intermittent network connections

• Direct playback of the remote site’s recording

• Scheduled, event, user-activated or automatic retrieval of remote site recordings to the central XProtect Corporate site

• Support for Scalable Video Quality Recording (SVQR)

• Short and consistent client login times regardless of the number of interconnected sites, remote site response time, or network connection state

• Full XProtect Corporate camera rights for the interconnected cameras

Due to its unique features, Milestone Interconnect is suited especially for specific verticals such as:

• Retail chains

• Transportation

• Companies offering surveillance services

• City surveillance