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MARKET TRENDS Partnering for managed access See page 22 SPECIAL REPORT Security at the World Trade Center See page 20 See Our Ad On Page 7. VOLUME 14, NUMBER 9 SEPTEMBER 2011 s COMMERCIAL & SYSTEMS INTEGRATORS s s Per Mar likes possibilities with hosted video storage PAGE 18 Securitronics does golf security PAGE 18 FIRE SYSTEMS INSTALLATION s s Illinois municipalities tenacious about right to monitor fi re PAGE 24 Security On-Line holds steady on price during recession PAGE 24 MONITORING s s DICE Corp's staff and aspirations grow PAGE 27 NMC dealers connected in an emergency PAGE 30 RESIDENTIAL SYSTEMS s s Platinum founders are now owners PAGE 32 Devcon has big plans for big new $215m credit facility PAGE 32 SUPPLIERS s With cash raised, Mace turns to acquisitions PAGE 51 s Access control goes mobile PAGE 51 STATS .......................................2 NEWS .......................................6 EDITORIAL .............................16 SPECIAL REPORT ..................20 QUOTED .................................53 AD INDEX ...............................53 DATABANK .............................54 www.securitysystemsnews.com $7.00 Collaborating and constantly adapting: The World Trade Center security team at work Diebold and DVS secure site for 10th anniversary observance on 9/11/11 and beyond By Martha Entwistle NEW YORK—The World Trade Center security team of engineers from Ducibella, Venter & Santore and integrators from Diebold spend a lot of time together. They have official meetings at least twice a week to track progress. Since the collaboration began early this spring, long days have been the norm. And, with the WORLD see page 20 Telco sheds September 11 transformed fi re industry DVS and Diebold executives gathered at the World Trade Center site on July 28 (from left) Brian Coulombe, Paul Woods, John DeGeorge, Kathryn Bartunek, Phil Santore, Frank Santamorena, Kevin Engelhardt, Nelson Barreto. alarm biz Guardian buys Cincinnati Bell's security operations for $11.5m By Martha Entwistle SOUTHFIELD, Mich.—At a time when many telcos are jumping into home security, Cincinnati Bell has shed its home security business, though it will continue to have a cooperative market- ing agreement with the buyer, Guardian Alarm, a super-region- al security company based here. GUARDIAN see page 34 Redundancy helps Universal grow By Daniel Gelinas GAINESVILLE, Fla. and ATLAN- TA—Universal Security Moni- toring, which became the central station arm of Crime Prevention Security Systems when CPSS acquired the moni- toring center in 1996, is growing its monitor- ing footprint, ramping up its AES IntelliNet radio network. It's a move central station manager Jim Carr says positions his company well for the future."We're always working toward 'There's no way to take us out,'" said Carr. Carr said Universal was monitoring signals through around 300 AES radios so far and more are planned. Another part of Universal's quest for unsinkable back- up revolves around a unique redundancy relationship between two independent installing security companies: CPSS in Florida and EMC Secu- rity in Atlanta. "Universal Monitoring John Pastore formed a partnership with EMC Security up in Atlanta. The reason was that [EMC president] Vince Raia was open- ing up his own central station up in Atlanta and we ... said, 'You know what? Let's form a partnership," CPSS president John Pastore told SSN. "We can have live redundancy. We don't think anyone does monitoring the way we do. Signals are hitting both Atlanta and Gainesville simultaneously ... The part- nership has worked very, very well." CPSS VP of operations Jorgia McAfee agreed the relationship UNIVERSAL see page 30 By Tess Nacelewicz BROOKLYN, N.Y. and BRONX, N.Y.—The Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center killed nearly 3,000 people at that site, including 343 fi refi ghters and 60 police offi cers. This September marks the 10th anniversary of the attack, and the vice presidents of two New York City fi re companies recently spoke to Security Systems News about how they believe the tragic event in their city changed the industry, leading to increased safety standards. "The key word since 9/11, in my opinion, is 'survivability,'" said Bren- dan Doorly, who is co- owner of Cross Fire & Secu- rity, based in Brook- lyn. "They want their systems to survive in B. Doorly the event of another major disaster and a lot of this is done through redun- dancy." Owen Grant, a partner in Falcon Engineered Sys- tems, located in the Bronx, said 9/11 led to stricter safety requirements and stricter inspections, par- ticularly with high rise buildings. "It's a 'must' type of deal," Grant said. "You have to have walls, and you have to have fi re alarm sys- tems in there." Grant's company began operating in December 2001, only a few months after the WTC attack. The seven-employee company, SEPT. 11 see page 26 CRIME LIGHTS ON 'S GONE! GOTCHA! .. .