As a result of this partnership, e-Convergence Solutions will market off-the-shelf intelligent video solutions from ioimage. e-Convergence Solutions, based in Centreville, Virginia, specializes in the data networking market, providing IT and security-related convergence products to data networking VARs and integrators throughout North America. A high concentration of e-Convergence reseller partners serve the federal government, intelligence community and commercial market.

"Ioimage represents the first physical security device offered by e-Convergence Solutions to data networking VARs and the many high-level government customers they serve in the Washington, DC area and beyond," said Joseph Heinzen, president of e-Convergence Solutions. "We've begun to incorporate physical security solutions in our product offering, because there's a logical association between keeping someone from coming in the door and then letting them on the network. We feel that physical security and data networking security are a powerful combination for convergence applications and that video surveillance is the next big data network application."

Thanks to the addition of ioimage products at e-Convergence Solutions, companies such as LANtek, Inc., a network solutions provider in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, have begun implementing intelligent video solutions from ioimage for several customers, projects in the pipeline also include a local municipality and the military.

"We look for products that fill a unique niche," said Dennis Cichelli, president of LANtek, Inc. "ioimage offers network-based intelligent video products. It's a natural extension of our capabilities to add this to the network, enabling clients to access surveillance from anywhere."

"This partnership with e-Convergence Solutions offers a comprehensive reach into the physical security, IT, data and government security markets," explained John Whiteman, VP and general manager ioimage North America. "Now we can provide a simple-to-install solution to the data networking industry, an important sector within our sales and marketing efforts."