No one can be everywhere at once. But for a small business owner, knowing what's happening in your storefront, warehouse, or parking lot at all times can make a difference in your company's physical and financial security. Whether you need to monitor your premises entrance, view employees as they work, guard against theft and vandalism during off-hours, or simply protect your business in the event of a workplace accident, you need effective remote video surveillance.

The Cisco® Small Business PVC300 Pan Tilt Optical Zoom Internet Camera provides a feature-rich, highly flexible video solution for your business. It provides full pan, tilt, and optical zoom capabilities (Figure 1) to let you monitor any aspect of your business operations and virtually manage multiple sites from a central location. As an intelligent IP solution, the Cisco PVC300 also offers a wealth of advanced security, monitoring, and alerting capabilities that go far beyond what conventional closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems can provide. The Cisco Small Business PVC300 Internet camera lets you:

-Integrate alarms, door sensors, motion detectors, and other business and security systems into your video solution

-View live video of your business from anywhere, using an Internet-enabled PC or mobile phone

-Receive automatic alerts (including video clips or still images) whenever motion is detected on your premises after hours

-Locate specific dates, times, or incidents in your video archives in seconds, instead of having to manually pore over hours of analog video

-Easily and cost-effectively add new cameras, video storage, and security applications as your business evolves

Features:

• Optimal camera control
• Remote accessibility
• Advanced application support
• Easy installation
• Video monitoring software
• Pan, tilt, zoom camera with 2.6x optical zoom
• IPv6 support, Samba client
• 1/4-inch, progressive-scan CCD sensor delivers high-quality video
• Low light sensitivity with high-quality lens and sensor
• Audio input/output for external microphone and/or speaker
• I/O ports facilitate alarm triggers, power lights on/off, etc.
• PoE allows for flexible installation
• Dual codecs (MPEG-4 and MJPEG) supported simultaneously
• IP multicast support
• Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) video/audio streaming to unicast and multicast clients
• 4x digital zoom and 2.6x optical zoom
• Third-Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) allows viewing of video on a mobile device
• Motion detection with event notifications to an email
• Account or alarm log in the monitoring software
• JPEG snapshots at multiple resolutions that can be sent to an FTP server
• Real-Time video recording from the Web interface directly with one button recording
• PC-less event recording directly to Network Attached Storage via integrated Samba client