One-page printable guide: the record-at-the-edge bandwidth model with the viewed-cameras WAN formula (centralizing 1,500 cams = 6 Gbps vs federation = tens of Mbps), a four-pattern comparison (single distributed VMS / federation / interconnect / cloud-native VSaaS) with where recording lives and WAN-outage tolerance, a site-by-site rollout staging checklist, per-site permission and retention reminders, and the cross-vendor 'this is PSIM, not federation' warning.
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The handbook · 7 volumes
Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
This guide compares four VMS patterns, distributed, federation, interconnect and cloud VSaaS, with the viewed-cameras WAN formula and a site-by-site rollout checklist. Our seven-volume handbook covers the surveillance stack; Volume 1 explains encoding and bitrate, Volume 6 covers detection and tracking, and Volume 7 covers serving and cost. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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