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Transportation: Video Detection & Surveillance CCTV

IP cameras are being widely installed in road and rail networks for monitoring, surveillance and law enforcement. Cameras located on bridges, alongside roads or railways and in airports as well as ports, can capture vehicle identification numbers, detect vandalism or monitor criminal activity. These devices are usually different from those such as speed cameras used directly for enforcement of laws within the network itself, and may be accessed by other agencies, for example, in homeland security or to detect stolen vehicles. But whether used for surveillance or enforcement, the cameras will need to be hooked up to an IP network with existing copper infrastructure often providing the only easily deployable physical medium. In some cases, first generation non-IP cameras have already been networked over copper via legacy T1/E1 equipment, but such links no longer provide sufficient bandwidth for some of the latest high-resolution cameras. The best solution going forward is to deploy carrier Ethernet to these surveillance cameras, using the Actelis ML series of Ethernet Access Devices (EADs), which is easy both to install and manage, with a variety of options to suit different requirements.