Antrica is an industry leading manufacturer and supplier of hardware video encoders & decoders who have been a well known name in this industry for 15 years. Antrica are specialists in this niche video over IP industry and supply to a range of markets worldwide. Their products are set apart from the competition in terms of reliability, performance, integration, including Power over Ethernet connection and compatibility.
Power over Ethernet (PoE) is a technology that lets network cables carry electrical power. Usually an encoder requires a power connection, and a network (ethernet) connection. However, if the encoder or camera is PoE enabled, only the network connection needs to be made, as it will receive its electrical power from this cable as well. This often keeps installation simple and cabling costs to a minimum, so it is a popular choice in products.
PoE has a few versions, but generally carries 48 volts to allow for power over long cable runs such as up to 100m. The equivalent 12v DC cable run would require very heavy cables to avoid dropping too much voltage over the 100m.
PoE has two main power standards ; most Antrica products only need the basic PoE, but occasionally PoE+ higher power may be required, particularly with PTZ cameras and heft motors.
At Antrica, we understand the importance of a professional, qualified and expert approach. For 15 years, our team of UK specialists have worked with system integrators & organisations from all over the world find the perfect video encoder or decoder solution.
We excel in customer satisfaction and our team are one of the most efficient you will find, along with providing a personal touch to the service we offer.
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The ANT-3xxxx range is fully ONVIF Profile S & G Compliant.
A fully ONVIF encoder will 100% work as ONVIF guarantees compatibility (ANT-3XXXX range). However, if you need a ‘view only’ stream and can live without ONVIF discovery then we have the ANT-2XXX range which can sometimes integrate. We can provide a public IP stream for you to test if you need.
Yes, we do for larger projects. We also offer a remote way of testing the stream’s integration.
Any H.265 option will be suitable.
The ANT-36100, as it has alarm/serial data controls, as well as PoE, and is a more industrial-type decoder.
Yes. Providing you have anti-static handling procedures in place, these can be used in any applications where it can be ‘housed’.
Yes and no. Any decoding and re-encoding potentially reduces the quality, but using sufficiently high bit rates will allow the quality to look as good as the original.
Yes, these are intended to be low-latency wireless links with Video in and Video out.
Some of our decoders don’t have HD-SDI as an output. These converters offer a solution to have an HD-SDI output when required.
Antrica have taken on the challenge of reducing to zero all single use plastic within its packaging of Encoders and Decoders by the end of 2020. We are also striving to provide paperless shipments wherever possible.
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