Technologies
Video Infrastructure
Most video problems are not camera problems. They live in the network, the servers, the storage, the workstations and the way everything is connected together. Professional video depends on the infrastructure carrying, recording and displaying it.
Pacific Video Solutions works across the full stack that professional video depends on, from the camera all the way to the display system.
The Full Stack
The layers professional video runs on
A video system is only as reliable as the infrastructure behind it. Each layer carries, stores or presents video, and a weakness in any one of them shows up as a video problem.
Capacity and Resilience
Sizing and protecting the system as a whole
Capacity and resilience are properties of the whole system, not any single device. Bitrate, throughput, processing headroom and redundancy have to be balanced together so the deployment performs today and has room to grow.
- Aggregate camera bitrate against network capacity
- Recording throughput and storage write performance
- Server CPU, memory and decoding headroom
- Workstation GPU capacity for live and playback walls
- Redundancy for servers, storage and network paths
- Growth margin for future cameras and higher resolutions
Dependencies
When the camera is fine and the infrastructure is not
A camera can be perfectly configured and still deliver poor results because of the environment around it. Latency, packet loss, oversubscribed uplinks, storage bottlenecks and workstation limits quietly degrade video long before the camera itself is at fault.
Professional video depends on a chain of connected systems:
To review a full deployment, our video system assessments evaluate architecture and capacity end to end, while our IP video consulting targets network and streaming behaviour.
Display Infrastructure
The infrastructure continues to the display
The pipeline does not end at the recorder. Operator workstations, decoders, controllers and video wall and display systems all depend on the same infrastructure to present live and recorded video reliably in control rooms and monitoring environments.