EN | 78 Bosch Security Systems | December 13, 2005Appendix A Satellite SystemsA satellite system configuration is usually used for a medium to large distributed sys-tem, or to obtain extremely large matrix sizes configured more conventionally. Typ-ically, a single Main control site can be used to view/control cameras located bothlocally and at various remote satellite sites. Since up to 256 satellite sites can belinked to a single Main control site, very large, distributed systems can be achieved.If the satellite systems are located at the same site as the Main system, the result is alarge conventional-type system.In a satellite configuration, the Main control site can view/control any camera in theentire system, but the remote satellite sites can only view/control cameras associatedwith their own site. Satellites may be configured to operate either independently or,with no local viewing/control capability.It is also possible to configure satellite systems where each site can view/controlcameras from anywhere in the system. For a two (2) site system, this is referred to asa dual master configuration. In the same manner, triple and quadruple master sys-tem configurations can also be configured. Cascaded satellite systems, where a Mainsite has a satellite which is a master to another satellite is another available scenario.In fact, it is possible to configure systems that include a mixture of any or all of theabove scenarios.
