When an access client, such as XProtect Smart Client, connects to a surveillance system, an amount of initial data communication, including the exchange of contact addresses, is shared in the background. This happens automatically, and is completely transparent to the users.
Clients may connect from the local network as well as from the Internet, and in both cases the surveillance system must provide suitable addresses so the clients can get access to live and recorded video from the recording servers:
To provide access to the surveillance system from outside a NAT (Network Address Translation) firewall, you can use public addresses and port forwarding. This allows clients from outside the firewall to connect to recording servers without using VPN (Virtual Private Network). Each recording server can be mapped to a specific port and the port can be forwarded through the firewall to the server's internal address.
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