AXIS 2120 User’s Manual Choosing Your Application 29
Choosing Your Application
The AXIS 2120 can be used in a wide variety of application s and installs directly onto an
Ethernet network, or it can be used with a V.90-compati ble modem. Using the Web-based
Administration Tools and easy-to-use Wizards, you can quickly and easily develop your
application.
Not to be regarded as a comprehensive catalog of po ssible user applications, this section
describes several typical applications and includes other informati on to help you confi gure
the camera.
Note: Although most V.90-compatible modems are known to work well with the AXIS 2120, Axis does
not guarantee that the product will work with all modems conforming, or otherwise, to the same
standard.

Networking Applications

If you have access to an Ethernet connection at your chosen point of installation, all you
need to do is attach the AXIS 2120 to your LAN/WAN and set th e IP Address. Then you are
ready to view images from any desktop over your net work.
However, the AXIS 2120 offers more than just convenient access to live images over the
network. Using the available Wizards to guide you through the process, you can quickly
configure your product for a variety of exciting applications, including:
• Viewing images in a custom-designed Web page.
• Uploading images to a remote FTP server on a LAN/WAN network to accommodate a large
audience where a high volume of Web page hits is anticipated.
• Motion detection or external alarm device triggering - with uploading of pre and/or post alarm
images to a target FTP server, when in-image motion, external alarms, or time-based events
occur. You can also optionally send e-mail alerts containing a single image, or a Web link to a
pre/post alarm image sequence stream saved to the target FTP server.
Note: You can access live images from any desktop browser on your network as soon as the AXIS 2120
is physically installed on your network. The installer of the camera uses the available Wizards to
configure the chosen application. Advanced users can then use the Web-based Administration
Tools for refining the application once the basic configuration has been established with the Wiz-
ards.