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City of Long Beach Solves Storage for Its Citywide Video Surveillance

City of Long Beach has built one of the nation's first and largest wireless camera system infrastructures, using the 4.9 GHz spectrum for all of the cameras.

The city of Long Beach has selected the Pivot3 Inc.'s RAIGE (RAID Across Independent Gigabit Ethernet) solution for its citywide video surveillance storage needs. The footage captured by video surveillance cameras is managed and stored on the Pivot3 scalable iSCSI-based systems. This allows the public safety department to save significant financial resources by only buying the storage capacity it needs and grow it later, based on its requirements."We have built one of the nation's first and largest wireless camera system infrastructures, using the 4.9 GHz spectrum for all of the cameras. The system has been embraced by patrol officers in the area and has been used in several cases," said Lieutenant Steve Ditmars with the Long Beach Police Department. "Although our camera and wireless system were designed with expansion in mind, we realized only later the large scaling required from a storage perspective. That is why we chose Pivot3. We now have a storage system that can meet our current and future needs at a lower cost. The system was implemented quickly, and, because of its