Genetec Security-Center 5.1 vs. Omnicast 4 - Santec-video.de

Security Center 5.1 vs. Omnicast 4.x
Distributor: SANTEC BW AG, Germany
System Features Omnicast 4.x Security Center 5.1 Notes
Architecture & Scalability
Max. Number cameras or doors 10,000 2,000,000
Max. Number of concurrent clients 150 per Gateway 1,000 per Directory
Max. Number of federated sites N/A 2,000 sites of 150 entities
Max. Number of camera per Archiver 300 300
Backward compatibility Not supported Supported
Role architecture Not supported Supported
Health Monitoring Engine Not supported Supported
C# and .NET Not supported Supported
Infrastructure
SQL 2000 Supported Not supported
SQL 2005/2008 Supported Supported
VMWare Supported Supported
Microsoft Hyper-V Not supported Not supported
NEC Clustering Not supported Supported Not supported for the Archiver
Windows Clustering Supported Supported Will be tested after SC 5.0 GA
Windows 2003/2008 Supported Supported
Windows XP/Vista/7 Supported Supported
Configuration
Copy Config Supported Supported Per camera model
Transfer video Supported Supported
Monitor user connections Supported Supported Using system status task
Configure logical IDs Supported Supported
Custom events Supported Supported
Custom actions Supported Supported Using zones and output behavior
Discovery tool Supported Supported
Scheduling Supported Supported
Video Streaming
Unicast mode only Supported Supported
Automatic detection of multicast/unicast Supported Supported
Multicasting support Supported Supported
Unicast /Multicast mixed mode Supported Supported
Multicast by Archiver Supported Supported
Multiple Gateways (Redirector in SC5.0) Supported Supported
Multicast bridging Supported Supported
Video Features
Video Compression Formats
MPEG-4 / MPEG-2 / MJPEG /
Wavelet / H.264
MPEG-4 / MPEG-2 / MJPEG /
Wavelet / H.264
Live Viewing Supported Supported
Multistreaming support Supported Supported
Dynamic stream switching Supported Supported
Bookmarking Supported Supported
Snapshots (print/save) Supported Supported
PTZ control Supported Supported
Digital Zoom Supported Supported
I/O support Supported Supported
Decoder support Supported Not supported
Motion Detection Supported Supported
Audio Supported Supported
Alarms Supported Supported
Media Gateway Supported Not supported
Direct Show Filter Supported Not supported RAW stream access available in the SDK
Archiving Features
Recording Supported Supported
Recording schedules Supported Supported Per archiver
Synchronous Playback Supported Supported
Reverse Playback Supported Supported
Smooth Reverse Playback Not supported Supported
Playback from all sources Supported Supported Supported through Federation also
Searches on Events Supported Supported
Video Export (g64, asf, avi) Supported Supported No AVI
DVR Support Supported Supported NEW
Backup & Restore Supported Not supported
Local Archiving Supported Not supported
Auxiliary Archiving Supported Supported NEW
Multiple Archivers Supported Supported
Downsampling Supported Supported
Watermarking Supported Supported
Boost quality Supported Supported
Disk group Supported Supported
Retention per camera Supported Supported
Archiving priority Supported Supported Per archiver role
Maximum number of recording cameras per Archiver Supported Not supported
Archiver Failover Supported Supported
Redundant Archiving Supported Supported
Archiver hot standby (60 sec) Supported Supported
Archiver cold standby 1:1 Not supported Not supported