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| Title = Axis Communications
| Release Year = 1984
| Product Type = Security
| In Production = Yes
| Official Website = https://axis.com/
| Logo = Axis.png
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Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Lund, Sweden, Axis is a video surveillance company with approximately 4,000 employees across more than 50 countries.<ref>Axis website, https://www.axis.com/en-us/about-axis
Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Lund, Sweden, Axis is a video surveillance company with approximately 4,000 employees across more than 50 countries.<ref>Axis website, https://www.axis.com/en-us/about-axis



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Axis Communications
Basic Information
Release Year 1984
Product Type Security
In Production Yes
Official Website https://axis.com/



Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Lund, Sweden, Axis is a video surveillance company with approximately 4,000 employees across more than 50 countries.[1]

Axis Companion Classic

Released in 2016,[2] Axis Companion Classic (formerly just Axis Companion) was a freely provided software for Axis account owners to be able to setup, configure, and manage cameras on the network. It also allowed a remote viewing feature for an iOS or Android Companion app to be able to view camera feeds remotely.

Removal of Remote Access Support

Axis signaled that they would be removing remote access for any new sites created after March 31, 2023.[2] Their software was updated in version 3.74.000 (released on March 15, 2023) to notify customers.[3]

When version 3.75.000 was released on March 24, 2023,[3] the only change was to prevent users from being able to enable remote access to camera feeds for new sites.

Release Notes:

Changes since 3.75.000

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No Secure Remote Access on new sites created after 2023-03-31.

If a consumer never updated to this or later versions, all remote access would continue to work and consumers could continue to create new sites without restriction.[2]

Axis Companion

As part of their efforts to upgrade software while retaining legacy setups, Axis created Axis Companion after renaming the previous Companion to Companion Classic.

Removal of Third-Party SD Card Support

Starting June 27, 2024, Axis removed support for any new device configurations in Companion with third-party SD cards.[4]

Axis SD Cards

Axis sells proprietary SD cards, and claims that their cards are specially designed for reliability[5] and offer a five-year warranty.[6][7] As of 2025, Axis' SD cards are roughly five times as expensive as a comparable third-party SD card[8] and is required for all new setups on their "free" platform Camera Station Edge.[9]

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