Fixed video surveillance solutions are poised to become one of the most powerful and productive technology tools in every part of the globe. A video camera placed in a secluded dormitory or factory entryway. Video monitoring of remote parking lots at corporations, universities, shopping malls, sports arenas and airports. Remote visual surveillance of mission-critical technology and capital assets, such as auxiliary facilities, extended pipelines and storage areas. Real-time transmission of video and other data to provide actionable information and enable real-time response.

As organizations address the implementation of fixed video surveillance solutions, they must carefully consider the most important factors, in particular the Big Three issues concerning the infrastructure required to support cameras at selected locations: cost, deployment time and performance.

While many organizations have deployed wire based solutions, systems integrators and network operators are increasingly choosing the very real business advantages of using a wireless infrastructure to extend coverage for existing video surveillance networks or establish video coverage at new locations. With IP based wireless, broadband solutions network operators can:

• Extend existing CCTV video surveillance networks
• Build new IP video surveillance networks

While deploying a common architecture across the video network is relatively straightforward, there are many unique situations within a network that can be more efficiently connected with fixed Point-to-Point (PTP), Point-to-Multipoint (PMP) or Mesh wireless broadband infrastructure. An understanding of the array of wireless technology solutions will enable network integrators, architects and operators to select the architecture and equipment that best meet the Big Three requirements for a specific fixed video surveillance application.