It is a premium IP video surveillance solution with centralized management, ideally suited for large installations.

Milestone XProtect Corporate is designed for large, multi-site and multiple server installations requiring 24/7 surveillance. It offers centralized management of unlimited numbers of devices, servers and users, and empowers an extremely flexible rule system driven by schedules and events. Distributed server architecture allows unlimited recording and archiving of video. Full-fledged client access provides live view, playback and video evidence export with smart search and analysis - all operated through standard computers.

Like all Milestone software offerings, XProtect Corporate is independent in its support for a wide choice of network cameras and encoders from different leading manufacturers. The open platform also includes application program interfaces (APIs) for integration with third-party systems.

With more than 50% of its employees working in research & development, Milestone Systems has established itself as a global leader for open platform IP video management software. A select team of Milestone engineers have developed XProtect Corporate based on .Net technology, with premium features that have optimal application in large implementations requiring centralized management and remote operation.

"XProtect Corporate will be a very welcome IP video surveillance solution for Microsoft professionals who are used to working with the advantages of network infrastructure and IT systems," says Kim Macallan, head of product management at Milestone Systems headquarters. "We've had a great team of innovative systems engineers developing this product, drawing on our years of expertise in open platform IP video management software, fed by market input from our global channel of partners with more than 25,000 customer installations."

XProtect Corporate has a hardware detection wizard that scans the network to discover IP cameras and video encoders from the leading vendors, searching by IP range with automatic model identification. This makes large system setups or moves very fast, and new camera additions a simple matter.

XProtect Corporate has an innovative and flexible rules systems that works across all servers and all cameras or by customized groups, for instance, to record images based on motion detection. Camera settings can be changed or made to perform dynamically across groups, too. For example, cameras can record at a certain time or on specific days - individually or by groups.