IP-based security video, a major technology trend seen at this year’s International Security Conferences and on the exhibit floor at the American Society for Industrial Security event, calls for new types of transceivers, often with the ability to select data rates. One example: Ethernet transceivers from such sources as International Fiber Systems IFS of Newtown, Conn. One of the IFS devices can transmit either 10Mps or 100Mbps Ethernet data 2 over multimode or single mode optical fiber ports or electrical via a RJ45 Ethernet cable port. The approach also plays to the convergence of security and IT.
Then there are the transceivers, switches and hubs that control and move security video over fiber optic, coax and unshielded telephone wires.