eWeek interviews John Farino on how the interest on surveillance video may be a big opportunty for Cisco:

Cisco is planning a major push in the sector, built largely around the technologies gained via its April 2006 acquisition of SyPixx Networks, which markets video surveillance tools that allow analog-based systems to link over IP networks. Cisco officials are playing up their products' ability to serve as a backbone for a whole new breed of physical security capabilities.

"Even the most advanced network-based video surveillance systems out there today have largely been limited to one building or one network," Farino said. "There needs to be a lot of bandwidth available to allow for these new applications, and we want to provide the IP transport capabilities necessary to unbolt these systems from a cable and bring them into the larger networked world."

"We can help organizations convert any analog network-based system to IP to offer new surveillance applications today, while preserving their investments in existing technologies," Farino said. "And there are other added services that we can offer around storage of video, for instance, that will offer companies increased ability to view live streams or review footage for incident management."