AMAG Technology’s New Symmetry™ MultiMedia Controller Houses Access Control and Video Together

Torrance, CA (September 25, 2006) – AMAG Technology’s new Symmetry™ MultiMedia Controller allows users to operate their access control systems, monitor alarm points and relay outputs, and control an advanced video management system in a single enclosure. The controller utilizes an embedded operating system that is not based on a PC, which provides reliability and high performance in the event of PC failure.

Users can configure uniquely integrated solutions when they combine the new Symmetry M2150 8DBC Controller, Symmetry M2100 and multiNODE 2 controller products with the new Symmetry™ Edge Network Video Server (ENVS®).

The Symmetry ENVS allows digital MPEG-4 data from analog cameras to be stored and processed with little influence on LAN/WAN bandwidth. The unique Symmetry ENVS allows video to be kept at the edge of the network to be stored and forwarded when designated. Users can set up a time to forward activity or store and forward using event based recording capabilities.

The edge of network store and forward utilizes hard drives within the video servers at the edge of the LAN to store recorded MPEG-4 video that can be retained locally or forwarded to a central storage server on a scheduled basis when the LAN/ WAN is less active. You can replay video seamlessly regardless of where it is stored.

Event based recording records data when an event occurs. A rolling buffer within the Symmetry ENVS allows pre-event recording to take place without the need to store all data on a 24x7 basis. Configure the system to send only event related data to the central storage server.

The flexible controller can expand to up to 16 readers, and may be networked to form a chain of controllers. Each chain of controllers (up to 32 controllers per chain) communicates with PCs running the security management software.

The Symmetry 2150 8DBC controller supports a full range of reader technologies including Smartcard, Biometrics, Proximity, Magnetic Stripe, and Wiegand. Several default card formats are automatically programmed as standard. Custom card formats may be defined, providing an important benefit when integrating existing cards with a new security system.

Symmetry Professional and Enterprise software manages the system along with the new Symmetry™ Video Management software module and new range of multimedia controllers, market leading DVRs and IP cameras. The Symmetry MultiMedia Controller may only be used with version 6 or higher of the security management software.

About AMAG Technology

AMAG Technology Symmetry Security Management Solutions can be found in a wide spectrum of markets: government, commercial, education, transportation, healthcare, retail and banking. Based out of Torrance, California with sales and support located throughout the US, AMAG sells its products through its valued resellers throughout North America. AMAG Technology is part of G4Tec, a leading manufacturer of scalable, integrated security management systems headquartered in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. AMAG Technology has been at the leading edge of access control technology for over 30 years. As AMAG Technology looks to the future, the next generation of products will bring the core aspects of security to the next step beyond integrated solutions – Symmetry™.