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HILLS ANNOUNCES VMS PARTNERSHIP WITH MILESTONE SYSTEMS n HILLS has announced a distribution partnership with Milestone Systems, which the company said was a great opportunity for Hills and Milestone to bring superior video solutions to customers by combining their expertise and commitment to the channel. According to Hills CEO, David Lenz, it was refreshing to work with a global company that understands the importance of channel partnership and technology distribution. “Milestone brings not only
a world-class product set, but also a desire to grow the market in concert with a distribution partner, which is something that has been missing for some time in this segment,” Lenz said. According to Lenz, the Milestone team prides itself on development and a philosophy of ensuring that its platform never stops evolving. “As a community-based organisation, Milestone is committed to innovation, and achieves this through a robust open platform and SDK, which is designed to
facilitate easy integration with market-leading technology partners,” Lenz said. Hills’ James Layton said Hills and Milestone have a shared vision of concentrating on what they do well. “We’re very pleased to be partnering with Milestone, which we see as a true toptier software vendor with best-in-class products,” said Hills’ James Layton. “The synergy between both Milestone’s products and team, and our own team and reseller network, promises exciting times
ahead. “Milestone maintains its class-leading VMS platform by ensuring that all necessary resources are directed towards its giant development team, which is perpetually working on upgrades and increased functionality. “Milestone leaves distribution to the experts like Hills, ensuring that resources which would otherwise be spent on distribution are instead concentrated on further improving their product and service.” Milestone can be
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integrated with most video systems and has top tier integration with camera products such as Axis and IDIS.
FREDON WINS SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND CORRECTIONAL PRECINCT STAGE 2 n FREDON Security has won a tender for supply and installation of temporary site electrical and communications infrastructure, including solar lighting and CCTV, at Southern Queensland Correctional Precinct. The Stage 2 contract includes 3-phase high voltage aerials and pole mounted transformers, the design and construct for the supply and
installation of temporary electrical distribution boards, power, lighting and communications services and associated cables and cable management system, Also included in the Stage 2 contract are supply and delivery of 11kV 1500kVA transformers, supply and delivery of portable pole mounted solar power flood lights and supply and installation of CCTV cameras.
NEXTDC DATA CENTRES INSTALL 13 GUNNEBO SECURITY ENTRIES n NEXTDC has installed Gunnebo HiSec security booth entries at 4 of its Australian data centres, delivering access control for data protection and customer security. NEXTDC required a high security solution incorporating a sophisticated reader to enable automated verification and entry for employees and visitors, while maintaining high levels of safety and defence against breaches of security. The solution also needed to be energy efficient. NEXTDC installed a total
of 13 HiSec security booths at the 4 locations in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney. HiSec is a motorised high security booth in an elegant, transparent design offering single person detection, anti-hostage threshold, bullet resistant safety glass and high accuracy verification available via an inbuilt reader. NEXTDC opted for a dual verification system with biometric and scanned verification on the outside of the door. The HiSec solution features 2 sets of doors, where the second
only opens once the first door closes and verifies that a single person is inside the security booth inner chamber at a time. NEXTDC is a leading independent data centre operator. Its partner ecosystem comprises Australia’s largest specialised ICT community of more than 640 clouds, networks and IT service providers. With a focus on sustainability and renewable energy, NEXTDC delivers solutions that champion the best energy efficiency ratings in the country, as well as NABERS 5-star certification.
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