Cisco buys Broad Ware for Opening the Security Surveillance Equipment Market
The analysis for Frost & Sullivan: "we predict that the manufacturers such as IBM and Cisco will get more buying in this field, in those days many buying activities all are sponsored by the traditional manufacturers, but now the main roles are changed to be the IT manufacturers. It is wonderful for us." In the year for 2006, the risk investors and the other investors put ten millions US dollars for the security surveillance equipment manufacturers, the experts said it would get a big scale buying wave in this market for us. USBX Advisory Services issued a related security surveillance equipment market report in Feb to say that the increasing speed of the investment for it in the year of 2007 will be down.Although the digital video camera has been turned up for us, at the present more than 90% of them are remain the analogous ones. In the normal condition, the cameras and VCR, or connects with the encoding machine which is getting the analogous pictures into the digital pictures. The innovative manufacturers to develop and research this kind of switch technology includes 3VR and others, these companies often offer some video analysis tools to help to judge whether this picture is important or not for us. Object Video and Agent Video Intelligence are specializing in the software development and research with sending alarm function, and the connection for the camera, the VCR, the server and the storage device; they are the specializing software for 3VR and the middleware for the companies like others.
From last year, the big IT manufacturers start to get into this market. The IBM pushed the video analysis software; Siemens buys Vistas cape Security Systems in September last year and Cisco buys one company with 51 million US dollars. That is great. The Growth Capital Supervisor said: "to buy the two of them show Cisco train the new market to increase the growing for the increasing plan, however, it doubts about the scale for it and are not sure whether they can get the returns from it or not."