A term used by open standards suppliers such as Milestone Systems to describe the undesirable situation that the use of open systems avoids. Performing a forklift upgrade implies that system enhancements can't be performed piecemeal and that a small upgrade demands large scale associated changes. This goes against the notions of open architecture and plug-and-play. It is argued that by enabling network nodes to be independent from each other and vanilla, each can be swapped out of the system for upgrading without having to change other elements of the system.
Police in the Ohio city of Dublin are making use of XProtect Enterprise from Milestone Systems for the management of their extensive IP surveillance network infrastructure operating megapixel cameras from Axis Communications and IQinVision