Purpose and target audience

The purpose of this whitepaper is to provide insight to the benefits and ease of using Milestone XProtect VMS products. Furthermore, it introduces and describes the system components and overall system architecture.

This white paper should enable the reader to understand the overall system architecture of the XProtect VMS products and the primary system components and their functions. Furthermore, it provides recommendations for various system layout designs and includes references to more information on specific topics.

The primary audience for this white paper is system integrators and IT administrators with limited experience using Milestone XProtect VMS products who are in the process of selecting, deploying, administrating, or expanding a Milestone XProtect VMS system.

The reader is assumed to have a general understanding of IT and network infrastructure. In addition, a general knowledge about video encoding standards like MJPEG, MPEG4, H.264 and H.265 as well as transmission of video over IP networks is an advantage.