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What is Stratocast™?
Stratocast™ is a cloud-based video monitoring system that makes the adoption of network video security solutions easy. With Stratocast™, you can connect to your business wherever you go. Using the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud-computing platform, Stratocast™ eliminates the need for on-site servers. As a result, installation time is reduced and you can begin monitoring your premises quickly.

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Getting started
- What is Stratocast™?
  Stratocast™ is a cloud-based video monitoring system that makes the adoption of network video security solutions easy. With Stratocast™, you can connect to your business wherever you go. Using the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud-computing platform, Stratocast™ eliminates the need for on-site servers. As a result, installation time is reduced and you can begin monitoring your premises quickly.
- Stratocast™ accounts
  A Stratocast™ account is a collection of user-related and geographical information for a given company in a given location, and the arrangement with which that company can use the services offered by Stratocast™. There are two types of accounts: integrator accounts and client accounts.
- Firewall settings
  The ports must be open and redirected for firewall and network address translation purposes.
- Homepage overview
  The homepage is your starting point for all of your client and integrator needs. You can access the homepage from any page in Stratocast™.
- Changing your personal preferences
  To change the language of the user interface or enable camera-related notifications, you can change your personal preferences once your Stratocast™ account is active.
- Stratocast™ videos
  Use the Stratocast™ training videos to help you learn about key features and understand the product. You can access all the videos in one place, the Stratocast™ videos channel.
- About Stratocast™ mobile apps
  Stratocast™ mobile apps are the mobile version of Stratocast™ that you can use to connect to your system remotely over WiFi or cellular networks. With the Stratocast™ mobile apps, you can monitor your premises directly from your mobile devices.
Release notes
Check out what's new in the latest release of Stratocast
Integrators
Client accounts
Video units
Network attached storage
Basic monitoring
Bookmarks
Video export
Video recording
Health monitoring
Account management
Additional resources
Glossary

What is Stratocast™?

2019-08-13

Stratocast™ is a cloud-based video monitoring system that makes the adoption of network video security solutions easy. With Stratocast™, you can connect to your business wherever you go. Using the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud-computing platform, Stratocast™ eliminates the need for on-site servers. As a result, installation time is reduced and you can begin monitoring your premises quickly.

How Stratocast™ works

Using video surveillance equipment such as IP (Internet Protocol) cameras or analog cameras, you can record video to your edge recording video unit or to the Stratocast™ cloud. If recording on your video unit, the video is recorded continuously; if recording to the Stratocast™ cloud, you can choose to record video either continuously or only when motion is detected. From your laptop, tablet, or smartphone, you can then watch live and recorded video that is safely stored in the cloud. In addition, through Federation™, Security Center users can view and control their Stratocast™ cameras from their local installation of Security Desk.

The following diagram illustrates how Stratocast™ works to keep you connected to your business wherever you go.

Note: For a detailed list of all of the ports that you must open so that your devices can connect to Stratocast™, see Firewall settings.

How Stratocast™ works


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Encrypted video stream (TCP)
Encrypted communication 128-256 bit SSL or TLS (RSA or AES) and password authentication
H.264 video stream