Cisco assisting with Nigerian IP video surveillance

Cisco, in collaboration with one of its local partners in Nigeria, is making moves to promote Internet Protocol video surveillance and energy management solutions to boost system security in Nigeria.

Cisco specifically plans to ensure that there is a scalable platform for integrating security in businesses and equally bring benefits, such as operational flexibility, greater protection capabilities, low cost of ownership and reduced risk.

To achieve this, Cisco is already planning a forum to address this issue and ensure that organisations and government agencies protect people and assets as well as facilitate energy management for buildings, organisations and the community.

The forum, which is slated for July this year, will also explore how its network-centric and open-architecture physical security solutions can help clients leverage on their existing infrastructure to enhance security in their respective organisations.

Laurence Summers, a seasoned professional in the area of physical security and building management system from Quadrant Security Group in the United Kingdom, shall be leading the discussion on how IP convergence utilises physical security and energy management as a tool for organisational growth and development.

The forum will not only address some of the issues surrounding physical security and energy management, but will look at how Cisco-Smart can help organisations transform how their buildings are built, operated, monitored, and controlled for lower costs and a better work environment.

It would also seek to help oganisations integrate physical security to network security as a protective tool for people and assets and reduce energy consumption across global operations with sustainable IP network solutions.

Energy Sector manager of Cisco Nigeria Chuks Mba, noted that Cisco had helped forward-thinking organisations maximise the value of their systems, personnel and applications for more than 20 years, adding that its physical security solutions met the uncompromising needs of many organisations.

By Bimbo Omitooki