POE Switch for IP Surveillance Camera
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Hi All! I am going to be adding IP cameras to our surveillance system and will need a POE switch. The cameras I plan to use are 5 watts each so the POE budget is 240 watts minimum. I recently bought a Netgear M4100-50-POE for a similar project but I am open to suggestion of other brands and models. I would like to stay under $1000 per switch if possible. I appreciate your thoughts!
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I tend to like Netgear Prosafe in general. We've had great luck with them, but we use PoE pretty infrequently so that's non-powered that I normally see.
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@JoeyJakubiak The Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch is a similar price point.
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@JaredBusch said:
@JoeyJakubiak The Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch is a similar price point.
Yes, I like those a lot and we've started using them. But I'm not good on the PoE details and never know which ones will work properly
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I picked up a Ubnt switch for this reason. there will be one AP and maybe four cameras on it...
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I do like the Netgear switch we used here. And I just purchased the the Ubiquity UniFi AC Lite for the house and really like it so I'm kinda tempted to try Ubiquiti's switch here at work. Well thanks everyone!
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We have 6x Ubiquiti IP cameras, a Ubiquiti NVR, and a Tough Switch PoE (small one) running the show. I couldn't be happier with the dead solid reliability.
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I will say that the EdgeSwitches will give more power per port then most of the other brands. I just put in a EdgeSwitch 48 with 750W of power.
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I've got some HP ProCurve 2530-24G switches powering some cameras and wireless A/C access points. I needed some that supported PoE+ and VLANs. I believe the PoE+ spec puts it at 30 watts per port.
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@Mike-Davis Thanks! That's good looking switch and well under the budget!
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First check the IP cameras specs for PoE specifics, especially if you use Unifi ones. Their cheaper cameras are 24V Passive PoE and won't work with cisco switches and require a Passive to 802.3af Adapter. I spent about 2hrs trying figure out why the camera wasn't powering on from my 2960X switch.
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@larsen161 said:
First check the IP cameras specs for PoE specifics, especially if you use Unifi ones. Their cheaper cameras are 24V Passive PoE and won't work with cisco switches and require a Passive to 802.3af Adapter. I spent about 2hrs trying figure out why the camera wasn't powering on from my 2960X switch.
Oh I did not know that about their ip cameras. I had a similar issue with their UAP device and my cisco 3560 at home. I then used the supplied adapter and it worked. I've used hikvision cameras in the past with good success so Ill probably use them again. Thank you for the heads up on those!
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The Unifi micro is nice. I've just put one up today in a shared server room we have to keep an eye on our racks. Going to put in a 2nd (maybe 3rd around back) as we have a bit to either side of these and need to see them all. Magnet/screw/stick mount is very versatile. These are wifi only though.
Magnetic mounting
Screenshot from android mobile app
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@JoeyJakubiak Our IL office is using hikvision and they haven't had any complaints. Only negative thing I heard though was the nvr console needed IE I think. Our UK office is 90% mac so that wasn't great to hear.
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@larsen161 oh wow thats nice! I need eyes on the rack like that.
