Milestone Systems Navigates New Sales Channels with Netgear and Zucchetti

  • Oct 07, 2014

Milestone Systems has just announced a close relation with Netgear enabling over 10,000 Netgear resellers and more than 2,400 partners to sell solutions with Milestone XProtect.

Moreover, Zucchetti is now a certified Milestone access control partner, which allows Netgear partners to deliver complete physical security information management (PSIM) solutions.

Netgear designs the network infrastructure capable of supporting IP security from small-sized businesses to large corporate surveillance systems with up to 1,000 cameras. Solutions based on the Netgear infrastructure are flexible and reliable, offering a solid base for building dependable security solutions.

This allows Netgear partners to introduce more powerful solutions to the Italian market due to the fact that:

  • Milestone XProtect VMS is powerful, reliable and easy to use, having proven itself in more than 100,000 installations worldwide. Based on a true open platform, XProtect enables integration with the industry’s widest choice in cameras and best-in-class business solutions, such as access control and video analytics. The software is compatible with more than 3,000 encoders, IP cameras and digital video recorders (DVRs), from almost 150 different suppliers worldwide. Milestone strives to continuously increase its compatibility with new devices.
  • XAtlas, the multi-platform security management system designed by Zucchetti Axess, allows access control integration, workplace security, time and attendance data collection, anti-intrusion and firefighting integration, video surveillance, vehicle transit management and company canteen and parking management.

"This partnership is very exciting to us, as it opens a whole new channel for us,” said Claus Rønning, director Southern Europe & DACH, Milestone Systems. “Italian IT professionals will be able to use a world-class network infrastructure component and access control software to build value-filled PSIM solutions using leading open platform video management software. The ability to integrate Zucchetti’s and Netgear’s extensive partner network into the Milestone partner ecosystem will expand our combined market reach. This is truly a forward-looking partnership."

The new partnership is already stirring up excitement at Netgear and Zucchetti.

"Netgear is synonymous with quality and reliability,” said Stefano Barbieri, regional sales director CBU, Netgear Italy. “We are confident that all Netgear partners will seize the opportunity to increase their skills in the field of security, providing solutions that include Milestone video management system. We are also confident that the market will surely obtain benefit from this collaboration."

"The benefits for end users will be remarkable, starting with the fact that the access control functionalities of Xatlas software will be directly accessible through the XProtect platform interface, with modular and scalable settings, according to specific requirements," stated Domenico Uggeri, Zucchetti vice president.

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