Milestone Husky X2 and X8: high-performance NVR platform with scalable management software

These new Milestone hardware platforms make it easy to set up and design video surveillance solutions for large installations, using Husky recorders as high-performance scalable building blocks.

Lower cost of ownership, high performance and easier management in the security system are some of the advantages offered by the new Husky X2 and X8 platforms Milestone, that reduce the number of servers needed in a large installation and encourage graphics processor operation in video decoding to improve system performance.

Milestone has developed the Husky X series with two initial models: X2, which features two hot-swappable hard drives and integrates a swicth PoE +, to manage up to 133 network cameras, 720p to 25 frames per second, 2Mbit/s.

The Husky X8 has eight hot-swappable hard drives and two network interfaces 10 Gbit/s. In addition, it is possible to expand internal storage with external storage arrays, connected via a high-speed fibre channel via Ethernet (Fcoe) and iSCSI connections.

This high-performance platform supports up to 780 Cameras (at the same resolution and speed as the X2 model), with a maximum recording speed of 1.828 Mbit/s, thanks to the addition of a graphical processing unit Intel Four-core Iris Pro, making hardware acceleration easier.

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