PRESS RELEASE
11th February 2008

Axis awarded MTS Security Best New Partner

Axis Communications, the global leader in network video¹, has awarded Irish security installer MTS Security its Best New Partner Award 2007 at its recent partner conference held at Sopwell House, St Albans. Dublin-based MTS Security had expertise in access control and intruder alarms before building expertise in IP-Surveillance deployments over the last two years.

MTS Security decided to make a commitment to IP-Surveillance following attendance at an AXIS Academy training session in 2006. At this time MTS Security commenced installation of IP-Surveillance projects for many of their existing and new clients, successful network video conversions and new IP-based installations enabled MTS Security to become an AXIS Solution Partner in April 2007. The company has built a team specialising in IP-Surveillance deployments in Ireland and elsewhere in Europe.

Steve Mooney, sales director, MTS Security, explains the trend to centralise physical security which is pushing cameras onto the corporate network:
“We are seeing a trend by larger companies to have the entire physical and data security infrastructure of the business managed from one central location. Central control is increasingly moving into the IT or facilities management departments.

“IT managers are already looking after infosecurity to protect the company’s intellectual data assets. They often work with the HR department to ensure the right access levels are provided to the right employees inside their offices. They now want to extend this control to put the corporate offices’ surveillance cameras onto the network so they can check people aren’t getting into restricted areas under false pretences.”

MTS Security is also seeing a parallel convergence going on so that access control, surveillance, as well as heating, air conditioning, alarm and intercom systems are all being run out of central, networked Building Management Systems and this is also tending towards deployment of IP-Surveillance cameras rather than CCTV cameras in new fit outs.

Partly as a result of these two trends, MTS Security has seen more than 40 per cent growth in 2007 and attributes some two thirds of this growth to its IP-Surveillance installation and integration contracts. MTS Security has won IP-Surveillance contracts with several global brands and this work has already taken them into Eastern Europe.

Steve Gorski, managing director, Axis Communications (UK) Ltd commented:
“MTS Security is clearly a rising star in the Irish market and an example to all installers in the security market that it is possible to make a fairly rapid transition into the lucrative and fast growing market of network video. The parallel trends of converging information with physical security systems and broadening of the functionality offered by building management systems are contributing to this growth quite considerably now.”

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Notes to editors
1 Axis Communications is the global market leader in the network video market with a market share of network cameras of 32%. The world market for network cameras alone will be worth more than $1 Billion by 2009. The network camera market is set to have a CAGR of more than 40 per cent per year over the next three years to reach a value of $1.5 billion by 2010, according to industry analyst house IMS Research (www.imsresearch.com) in its latest market report entitled ‘The World Market for CCTV and Video Surveillance Equipment 2007 Edition’ published in December 2007.

About Axis Communications
Axis is an IT company offering network video solutions for professional installations. The company is the global market leader in network video, driving the ongoing shift from analogue to digital video surveillance. Axis products and solutions focus on security surveillance and remote monitoring and are based on innovative, open technology platforms.

Axis is a Swedish-based company, operating worldwide with offices in 19 countries and cooperating with partners in more than 70 countries. Founded in 1984, Axis is listed on OMX Nordic Exchange, Large Cap and Information Technology. For more information about Axis, please visit our website at www.axis.com