Anyone who worked with large scale computer networks in the 80’s and even early 90’s probably observed some changes that are perhaps similar to what’s happening today with Network Video.
Back then it was data communications (net-heads) and telecommunications (bell-heads) which were converging. In the late 90’s and early 00′ VoIP further converged telecom and datacom. There was a significant cultural clash between the pony tails of startup companies such as Cisco, 3Com, Cabletron and Ascend versus incumbent giants like Nortel, Erricson and so on. It was the net-heads vs. the bell-heads.
Now network video causing IT groups and security groups as well as incumbent vendor’s versus startups have to work together.
I look forward to a move from a security market that features vendor lock-in strategies and stovepipe solutions to one that has implicit interoperability.