RE:RE:Sorry Avigilon, ADI Is Beefing Up W Box @ Gary. I am sorry but you need to be corrected. appreciate your love of AVO. I too think it is a great product but I cannot lie or waer rose colored glasses. you mention mom and pop or companies who do not take security seriously. In case you haven't noticed all the hacks going on. All the big iones happen in large corporations or Gov. ! because that is where the money or intel is. companies and government do not take security seriously. As one who audits these types of bodies, I can easily and very knowingly say their security is nowhere near being even half adequate. Not in design nor in operational readiness. its usually a complete joke and more one of a reactionary nature. I could take you ( if you had clearance levels) into 100 buildings and point out the most obvious weaknesses in security. weaknesses that have likely been flagged before to the owner of the building yet never corrected. They spend money on plants and automatic washroom doors before they spend on any real security. When they do drop a few million for video, they still have dopey guard sitting behind the screens. The Oct 22 event in Ottawa last year is a classic. LOTS of very expensive cameras but no one watching them. Yes analytics would have helped but they do not invest in that. why is another matter commercial office towers worth hundreds of millions often only have 4, 9, 16 or "MAYBE" 32 cameras running on two DVR's and each having their own separate monitor. simple DVR monitored by guard paid minimum wages. Guard could not tell you what is happening because they go video blind after 20 minutes and they are watching the cute women in the lobby or they are answering questions about which floor tenant X is on. they do not use analytics and it is not integrated into the card access system. they look at image "post" incident. slip and falls, truck hitting garage door etc. This is why, I have said in the past that AVo MUST penetrate the gov, and large corporate or utility areas. They do not sell through distribution networks and therefore prevent hundreds of small operators from even knowing their product exists let alone get a chance to install it . 99.99999% installers never see a large trade show and do not know AVO exists. So here is hoping that AVO, which is an excellent company and has good people, really penetrates the large gov and utility sectors. those 7K cameras would be awesome for those long shots or single cam installs that need to cover wide areas. their analytics would be good to have and I stress that with my Gov cleints every chance I get ( all currently married to Panasonic and Pelco) lets not make the mistake of downplaying Hik vision and the 30 other companies who now sell excellent, practicle and very cost effective 2 & 3 mega pixel cameras for all those multi million dollar office towers out there. Mom and pop installs is what got me started and its no small market and I would not blow them off. AVO would be very wise to find a way to get in on that market.