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Key concepts Page 9 FortiRecorder 2.4.2 Administration Guide
NVR. Although this involves installing a new network and thus increasing the costs, there are
some advantages of using a private network:
• the video streams are protected.
• the cameras are protected because they cannot be reached from outside the network.
• easier to determine bandwidth requirements.
• better quality of service since bandwidth is known.
See also
• Facilitating discovery
Remote camera deployments
Remote camera deployments refer to scenarios where there is a firewall between the NVR and
the cameras – i.e. camera discovery will not work and the cameras will likely have virtual IP
addresses on the firewall. The cameras are configured by selecting the VIP address mode on
the camera configuration page.
Video clips
You can use FortiRecorder to:
• Manually record activities
• Continuously record activities by schedules
• Record sudden activities only (motion detection)
• Record audio activities (if the camera supports audio detection)
• Record on triggers from digital input (if the camera support DIDO)
• View live video
Motion detection will record a video clip up to about 40 seconds long each time the camera’s
sensor detects movement. In contrast, continuous video records for the entire duration of the
schedule, regardless of movement.
Performance guidelines
There are two components to consider when looking at FortiRecorder performance – the NVR
(FortiRecorder) and the Client computer with FortiRecorder Central or a browser. Overall
FortiRecorder performance is a combination of the video input (video compression, image
quality level, complexity of the scene, video resolution, frame rate per second, number of
cameras) and the video output (to the clients for live views and playback). The performance
bottleneck in a FortiCamera deployment will likely be the network bandwidth to and from
FortiRecorder and the CPU performance of the computer running the FortiRecorder Central or
browser client, which must decode and render the video streams from the NVR. Displaying
multiple video streams on the client is very CPU intensive.
NVR performance
Number of supported cameras
The FortiRecorder-100D can support 16 cameras, 200D and 400D can support up to 64
cameras depending on the camera configuration. VM version of FortiRecorder depends on the
hardware performance.