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Key
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The Enterprise Security System works
well for sites as small as 10 doors to multiple, interconnected
systems spread across the country or world with 100,000 cardholders
at each campus. This scaled, consistent approach to physical
security and access control provides optimal investment protection.
Site servers may be redundant and physically separated to mitigate
against disaster or duress situations for Mission Critical Systems.
Along with dual rail communications to all workstations and field
panels, Enterprise Security Systems allow for the highest overall
system reliability and availability that is commercially available. |
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The Enterprise Security System uses
Oracle as its database. Likewise, the Enterprise Security System
uses Microsoft WindowsNT on the server platform. Guard stations
use WindowsNT Workstation, badging stations may be Windows95/98
or WindowsNT. Thus, your investment in the system and its data
has the protection afforded by the market presence of both Oracle
Corporation and Microsoft Corporation. |
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Enterprise Security Systems are organized
around four size groupings. The system size groupings are not
hard and fast demarcations. Rather, there is considerable flexibility
adding features and components at each system size and in moving
from one system size to the next. |
Small Systems:
100 to 2,000 badges, 10 to 50 doors, 100 to 1,000 monitored points,
single server, optional RAID-1 data disk, CCTV control, second
workstation or photo badging station.
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Medium Systems:
1,000 to 5,000 badges, 20 to 200 doors, 1,000 to 5,000 monitored
points, single server RAID-1 data disk, or redundant servers,
CCTV control, several workstations, photo badging station, 10
to 100Megabit backbone(s).
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Large Systems:
5,000 to 100,000 badges, 50 to 2,000 doors, 5,000 to 50,000 monitored
points, redundant servers each with RAID-1 disk arrays, CCTV
control, multiple guard stations multiple photo badging stations,
100M to 1Gegabit backbones.
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Enterprise Systems: Several Large Systems
with 50K to 5M badges throughout the several sites constituting
the Enterprise. Large Systems interconnected with private WAN
or VPN Internet. Enterprise wide, fully distributed badge database,
with access control and alarm monitoring local to each Large
System. Several Small or Medium systems may be included in the
overall system with after-hours alarm monitoring at a Large System
site. |
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The field panels are called Local Intelligence
Units or simply LIUs. There are several varieties of LIUs to
meet the size and deployment characteristics required at various
sites. LIUs operate autonomously and contain a per badge copy
of the access control and biometric database. Up to 100,000 badges
may be resident in an LIU. LIUs communicate using either the
real-time network or the Ethernet. |
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Network technology is at the heart of
the Enterprise Security System. Circuit agility and load leveling
are used whenever dual paths interconnect servers, workstations
or field panels. High speed messaging at 375Kbaud over real-time
networks is used, whereas typical security systems communicate
at 9.6Kbaud. Networking technology extends to the database interface
where historical data is recorded with optimal efficiency in
fully redundant systems. With high performance network and database
technology, alarms are annunciated in under 1 second and high
volumes of badge transactions are sustained. |