THE FUTURE:

With the physical security market now opting more and more often for IP-based devices over analog coax predecessors, IT professionals will be hard pressed to avoid the technology overlap for much longer. Still, it was evident at the show that a lot of education is needed to root out misconceptions about IP video.

The bottom line: Don't let the thought of surveillance video riding your network give you a panic attack. It's not the same "video" that network administrators often loathe.

Much of the fear is based on performance degradations experienced when dozens of employees or stream live events like or the . But the surge in downloadable content is a different technical reality from surveillance content created and viewed internally by a limited group of viewers.

Here are four tips on how to manage this growing stream of network video surveillance and seamlessly balance this new format with other traffic sharing the network.