March Networks, a provider of intelligent IP video and business analysis applications, launched VideoSphere -- a next-generation video management solution that enables organizations to maximize investments in existing video infrastructure as they make the transition to all-IP video.  With VideoSphere, customers benefit from common management software that unifies IP and analog environments in an end-to-end solution.

The VideoSphere portfolio includes integrated video and system management software, analytic applications and best-in-class March Networks IP cameras, encoders and networked video recorders.  VideoSpheres highly flexible architecture meets the diverse requirements of enterprise-class organizations regardless of their position on the technology adoption curve.

"While there is no question that IP video deployments will eventually dominate the security industry, that transition is clearly not going to happen overnight," said Alastair Hayfield, Research Analyst, IMS Research.  "Although we expect the world market for networked video surveillance systems to grow by almost 40 percent CAGR through to 2011, our research also indicates that there remains a substantial installed base of legacy systems, many of which will transition to IP over time.  By 2011, we expect that the total market for new networked video surveillance systems will be worth US$4 billion and that sales of digital video recorder systems will represent an additional US$3 billion annually as end users migrate their analog camera technologies to network-based applications."

Organizations ready for an all-IP infrastructure can install VideoSphere video management software on industry-standard host and storage servers and select from a portfolio of award-winning IP cameras to stream video directly onto their network.  Alternatively, VideoSpheres family of hybrid recording platforms enables organizations to enhance existing video infrastructure capabilities with advanced analytic applications and standard and megapixel IP cameras.