Simplified installation at lower costs
Rather than requiring extensive coax cabling like
analog systems, IP Network Video systems connect with CAT-5 or wireless communication systems that already exist in many buildings.

Reduced storage costs
When video surveillance moves into the networked world, it allows you to take advantage of IT technologies like network attached storage and storage area networks, which hold huge amounts of data. The system use dedicated high-density storage servers rather than relying on a single hard drive. The video on those servers can then be shared with anyone anywhere on the network.

Scalability
IP networks offer improved flexibility for enlarging a video surveillance system. It is easy to add cameras and storage space can also be added and distributed across the network. IP networks are uniquely able to support multiple viewers. In the same way that an
e-mail server can send the same data to multiple people at the same time, the network switch has the ability to clone the video and use the same data multiple times.

Video quality
Modern IP systems use MPEG-4, which makes more efficient use of the network than M-JPEG. When lower quality is sufficient and helps control the amount of storage used, IP gives you the ability to customize the quality of the video output based on your viewing needs and storage capacity.