Firetide and Milestone Systems have announced their strategic alliance to provide comprehensive video surveillance control and management capabilities over Firetide’s high performance wireless infrastructure mesh networks. With this alliance, Milestone combines its leading software solutions to control and manage large IP-based video surveillance systems with Firetide's renowned high speed and secure wireless networks.

Both companies are number one suppliers in the video surveillance category of their respective technologies this year, according to IMS Research’s recently released report: Milestone is listed again as number one in open platform IP video management software globally and Firetide is number one in wireless mesh equipment in video surveillance applications in the Americas.

"The implementation of our leading open platform video surveillance software with Firetide's proven high performance infrastructure mesh networks expands the capabilities of our solutions, enabling new and more flexible video surveillance deployments," said Eric Fullerton, CSMO at Milestone Systems. "Customers employing our integrated solution will benefit from the speed and mobility with which they can deliver the video data even in geographically spread out environments.”

The two companies’ integrated wireless surveillance system has already been implemented in demanding environments. For example, in the Philippines, President Benigno Aquino III’s inauguration celebration event and first State of the Nation Address were successfully secured by a rapidly deployed, real-time Firetide wireless infrastructure mesh network and open-platform video management from Milestone.

"The partnership between Firetide and Milestone gives users a cost-effective and efficient video surveillance solution that has widespread applications for government, transportation and commercial markets," said Bo Larsson, CEO of Firetide. "As our successes to date show, the integrated wireless video system from Firetide and Milestone gives our customers a solution for securely and reliably streaming and managing real-time video surveillance in the most demanding of settings.”