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Education Rising Value: The New Importance of Distributor Training

May 1, 2008
Change is in the air. Buzzwords like H.264, open architecture, IP, and interoperability keep growing louder, and emergent trends continue to take hold. With each new change and each
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Installing Networks: Home Networking 101

May 1, 2008
This is a typical basic arrangement for a local area network called a star.Entertainment and technology systems have not traditionally been included in the design/planning phases of construction projects until
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Door Tenders

Joan Engebretson
May 1, 2008
Security dealers using Marlin Central Monitoring of Kissimmee, Fla., can offer their customers remote management of their access control systems, including the handling of card additions and deletions and other
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2008 SDM 100: Double Digits

Laura Stepanek
May 1, 2008
What do you remember about 1991? In May of that year, SDM marked publication of the first annual SDM 100, a ranking by revenue of the largest security installation companies
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Where Can We Put all This?

Russ Gager
May 1, 2008
Craig Suter, IT systems manager for Deterrent Technologies Inc., installs hard drives into an IP video server and tests it on one of the company’s test benches before installation at
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Fire Alarm Addressables

Karyn Hodgson
May 1, 2008
This range of addressable fire alarm control panels, from GE Security,  demonstrates that addressable technology isn’t only for large applications any more.In the years since addressable fire alarm systems debuted
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Fire Alarm Systems: State of the Market

Russ Gager
May 1, 2008
James Stanley from JM Electronic Systems, Round Rock, Texas, reviews the programming at a school in the Killeen Independent School District.The slowdown in residential construction that began in 2007 is
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REDUCE FALSE ALARMS: How Filters Can Give You What Your Customer Cares about

Giorgio Bucci
April 1, 2008
The image on the left is a system view, the one on the right is the actual view, and the middle one is a blending of the two. When tuning
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WORKING WITH REP FIRMS
Leaning on Their Knowledge and Support

Maggie McFadden
April 1, 2008
Working with a manufacturer’s representative firm can be a needed advantage for dealers or integrators aiming to make their next sale. But what exactly is a manufacturer’s rep firm and
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Best Practices in Project Management

Joan Engebretson
April 1, 2008
Project managers must be effective communicators who can convey critical information, which is what Darryl Keeler (center), president of Tech Systems, strives for with his managers. Security systems integrators are
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