About Endura 2.0
Endura 2.0 is a complete solution for high definition video encoding, recording, and display. Designed as an end-to-end system for the demands of professional IP video security, Endura 2.0 guarantees interoperability and performance. And Pelco-patented EnduraStor and EnduraView technologies extract the optimum benefit from today’s megapixel cameras while keeping system costs under control.
H.264
Endura 2.0 utilizes the latest in video encoding technology, delivering outstanding video quality at a fraction of previous bit-rates and storage cost. What’s more, support for both Baseline and High Profile H.264 means the system will have the flexibility and performance required to optimize the benefits this new compression scheme has to offer. And because Pelco knows that customers want to leverage their investments in their existing systems, Endura 2.0 works seamlessly with new H.264 streams and MPEG-4 stream from existing Endura encoders.
HD Optimized
The Pelco HD Optimized system featuring Endura 2.0 overcomes the traditional challenges of bit rate, network management, storage costs and display requirements. Our next-generation system is more than the natural progression of traditional technology; it is a revolutionary way of thinking about video security. By leveraging the flexible, scalable and customizable nature of Endura 2.0, Pelco is able to offer a system capable of maximizing the value of megapixel technology. It is an intelligent, yet easy-to-use approach that provides greater control, enhanced operational flexibility, improved management, and expanded recording, archiving, and integration capabilities compared to anything else available.
High-Performance Recording
Built on a robust Linux OS-based platform, the NSM5200 is designed for reliability, with redundant power supplies, redundant fans, and a RAID6 recording structure that allows for two simultaneous drive failures while protecting recorded video. Storage pooling, unique to Endura, sets a new standard of reliability for network video recording. Via advanced network load balancing, groups of cameras are automatically recorded onto a storage pool consisting of multiple NSM5200s.
Storage Pools and NVR failover
Camera assignments are automatically rotated from NSM to NSM within a storage pool, to ensure that all available storage is symmetrically utilized. In the unlikely event of a NSM5200 failure, cameras are automatically distributed across the remaining NSM5200s in the storage pool, providing NVR failover. The advantage of storage pooling is in distributing risk across multiple NSMs. In the unlikely event that an NSM were to fail entirely, only small video segments would be missing from each camera while that NSM is down, rather than losing an entire block of cameras. And nearly all of that video will be recovered when the NSM is brought back online.
Zone of Interest
Customers often select megapixel cameras for their ability to replace several standard resolution cameras while providing powerful digital zoom capabilities. Endura 2.0’s Zone of Interest capability allows a user to maintain the panoramic view of the scene while selecting zones of interest to keep an eye on. These zones can then be located anywhere on one of two monitors supported by the workstation and provide virtual camera views without incurring additional network or processing load for supporting multiple cameras. And Zone of Interest gives all this functionality with a single camera – giving users both the whole picture and the detail they need.
User Experience
The Endura 2.0 Workstation Software offers the most flexible user-friendly experience of any IP video system on the market. Users can co-mingle 4:3 and 16:9 images on the same display, preserving the proper aspect ratio of each stream, giving a clear, undistorted view of all scenes. The Endura 2.0 workstation gives users unprecedented flexibility to customize the format and display of their workspace to adapt it to their needs. With the software’s unique tear-off capability, each section of the screen can easily be re-sized and moved from one area to another. And of course, language preferences, user permissions, on-line help, etc. are all carried over from previous Endura workstation versions.
Open Architecture
Pelco provides a complete API (Application Programming Interface) for all Endura 2.0 components, allowing other systems manufacturers to develop interfaces for and leverage Endura’s capabilities. Additionally, Pelco has developed interfaces in Endura 2.0 for several third-party IP cameras as well as fiber channel or iSCSI-based storage solutions, allowing system administrators to take advantage of existing SAN storage for video recording.
EnduraStor
Patented EnduraStor technology optimizes system storage capacity, greatly increasing recording duration while minimizing storage costs. In contrast to traditional “bump-on-alarm” recording, EnduraStor captures real-time video of important events that may not trigger an alarm.
EnduraView
The advent of HD video, Megapixel and H.264 bring new challenges for decoding and viewing video. Today’s PCs lack the processing power to display multiple HD streams simultaneously, resulting in artifacts, jerky video, or workstation stability issues. Pelco’s patented EnduraView technology overcomes this challenge, ensuring that multiple HD video streams will not overburden the viewing processor. That means your viewing will not be disrupted, and your high-quality recording is guaranteed. Only with EnduraView from Pelco.
Backward Compatibility
For customers with an existing Endura IP video system, moving to the benefits of Endura 2.0 is as simple as adding a new Endura WS5070 workstation and the new Workstation 5060 Software, along with a new Endura NSM Network storage manager. Endura 2.0 products can be seamlessly integrated into existing Endura systems, giving access to all legacy products for complete backward compatibility.
|
|
