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Drive to create a standard for the interface of network video products
Axis Communications, Bosch Security Systems and Sony Corporation have announced that they are to cooperate to create an open forum aimed at developing a standard for the interface of network video products.
Currently no defined global standard for network video products, such as camera, encoders and managements, exists to indicate how they should communicate to one another. The framework for the standard, incorporating the key elements of network video product interoperability, will be released in October 2008 at the Security show in Essen, Germany.
The main goal of this new standard is to facilitate the integration of various brands of network video equipment and to help manufacturers, software developers and independent software vendors ensure product interoperability.
A unified open standard will offer end-users greater flexibility of choice, enabling them to select products from different vendors in order to develop systems that fully meet their needs.
A forum set up by the three companies will be open for all companies and interest groups who would like to participate in the standardization work. The forum will be established in the fourth quarter of 2008, and will work on further development of the standard and on reaching agreement on how the new technology should be implemented.
