10-Slot Powered Chassis enabling Analogue Video Surveillance over UTP

• A single chassis can hold any combination of up to 10 modular cards
• Provides high density output by allowing up to 40 fixed or 8 PTZ cameras depending on combined power consumption
• System expandability – start with four cameras and expand up to 40 cameras in a single chassis
• Easy to install – fits in a standard EIA 19-inch rack
• Requires only 2 rack unit spaces
• Individual power modules, hot-swappable slots, making it unnecessary to shutdown the mission critical video system during routine maintenance
• Full 3 Year Product Warranty

This 2U, 19-inch rack-mountable chassis is capable of holding up to 10 VIPER modular cards. The chassis is used for both wiring closet and headend VIPER applications. A single chassis with appropriate modular cards is capable of handling up to 40 fixed cameras, 36 PTZ cameras (max. 8 Panasonic PTZ cameras), respectively. In addition, a combination of both fixed and PTZ cameras can be supported by a single chassis.

The chassis provides high density output of 28 V AC / 24 A aggregate power (max. 1.5 A per channel) for up to 40 fixed cameras or 8 Panasonic PTZ cameras (or combination of fixed and PTZ cameras - 36 cameras max.) - depending on total camera power consumption. With its 230 V AC input voltage it is capable of supplying power to VIPER modular cards through its bus backplane. PTZ control is capable of being supplied by using the VIPER PTZ card (CV-PTZ) over a data bus backplane.

The device eliminates single-point failure in the event of a major fault within any VIPER modular card mounted in the chassis. In this situation, only the faulty VIPER modular card channel will shut down while all other cards and channels remain fully functional. This is extremely important in a mission critical video surveillance application. In addition, all VIPER modular cards located within the chassis are hot swappable, making it unnecessary to shutdown the entire video surveillance system when adding, removing or replacing cards.

Advantages

This Video Surveillance over UTP Structured Cabling Series facilitates the integration of analogue security systems within existing IT architecture defeating the need to run traditional coaxial, power and data cabling bundles. Instead, power, video and data are uniquely carried on an ANSI/TIA/EIA and ISO single standards compliant 4-twisted pair cable that meets Cat 5 or higher performance requirements.