Delivering IP-based solutions to enhance and secure video surveillance networks for critical environments and industries.
Thousand Oaks, USA, 23 September 2024 – Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, a leading provider of secure networking and communication solutions enabling organizations and industries to accelerate their operational efficiencies and competitiveness, is excited to announce its partnership with Stone Security, award winning integrator and provider of professional, enterprise class, physical security products and services.
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise and Stone Security share a mission to deliver best in class solutions alongside trusted partnerships with a focus on joint customer success. This shared philosophy drives focus and innovation within the physical security industry.
Together, the partnership will deliver technology and services for IP-based networking of secure environments - physical security, smart buildings, etc. - for their customers. Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise technology meets businesses security priorities with zero trust security architecture for networking switches operating physical security camera networks and Video Monitoring Systems (VMS) for surveillance systems. The LAN/Wireless LAN network technology portfolio from Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise provides secure policy enforcement, auto-configuration, ample power over Ethernet and more to provide the capabilities required to ensure critical networks have the security in place to meet today’s challenges.
Stone Security’s approach as a strategic integrator is to work with open platform sources, industry leading, and partnership driven solutions. With these principles as a foundation, Stone has chosen products that deliver high functioning, integrated and flexible physical security systems. Stone currently manages full-time operations in 11 states across the US as well as three countries in Latin America while serving customers all in between.
Together, the two companies build secure, reliable and integrated video surveillance networks for schools and universities, casinos and hotels, hospitals and clinics and other businesses. Stone Security is leveraging the tailored Ethernet switching portfolio from Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise for video surveillance, which includes the Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch® Milestone Plugin for seamless integration with Milestone video management software (VMS).
As an integrator, Stone Security chooses to focus on the best technologies the industry has to offer and build our employees’ knowledge and expertise in that area. This allows us to deliver a higher-grade solution to our customers. Together with ALE, we create dependable secure networks that elevate the security of a network and business. Our joint solution delivers real-time retrieval of information that can be critical and life-saving.
Integrators can ensure a knowledgeable workforce by limiting their range of technology choices and making sure every employee is well trained in the smaller number of technologies.
We pick the best technologies the industry has to offer, and every employee is an expert in those products. That allows us to deliver a higher-grade product to our customers.
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise recognizes designing and creating a video surveillance system based on Internet Protocol (IP) requires a high level of information technology expertise in the integrator community to deliver value to customers. Stone Security is one of those integrators possessing these skills to expertly launch an IP video system and the reason we are proud to work with them to serve our customers.
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise will be a participant in over a handful of Stone Security customer events in the second half of 2024 where customers will explore the latest security technology from a range of vendors, network with peers, and learn about best practices for video surveillance networks.