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If the server goes down, does it stop recording?
It depends on which server goes down, and that is the question to ask in front of the diagram before signing. If the one that records goes down, you lose the cameras that were hanging off it for as long as it is down. If the one that holds the configuration and the users goes down, on most systems recording carries on but the operators cannot log in, which is less serious and rather bewildering if nobody had explained it.
There are three ways of reducing it and they combine. Duplicating the configuration server, which is usually a separate licence. Having a standby recording server that picks up the cameras from the one that went down. And recording in the camera itself, which fills the gap when the server comes back. Each covers a different scenario and none covers them all.
What turns that into something real is a test: switching off the main server in front of the client on handover day and seeing what happens, how long it takes to recover and whether the gap gets filled. A system sold as redundant that nobody has ever switched anything off on is not tested, it is configured. And that test is worth repeating at the inspections, because redundancy degrades quietly.
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A written answer is enough to decide whether it interests you. To know whether it works at your site you have to see it on a real scene, with the image as it is and, on top of it, what the system understands from it. That is on the IRIS Neural website, which is the group's product.