oldblackjoe

I am an IP Camera novice, but Cisco networking proficient. Here is a proposed LAN design for your reptile farm, not knowing the dimension of your property, will assume it is around 1000Mx500M. 1. deploy multimode fiber ring of six nodes, with fiber span up to 500m between two nodes. Build yourself a fiber ring along the fence line, or form a smaller oval circle away from the fence, to prevent malicious fiber cut. Multimode fiber should be terminated with LC connectors per SFP spec 2. procure seven (6 working, one for spare) LAN switches with at least two SFP ports, get 14 SX SFP's (1000BaseSX is multimode, 12 working, 2 for spare). Switch should be <$500, SX SFP should be <$100 3. once the gige ring is operational, it can survive single fiber cut or single switch failure. You could put the spare switch side by side with the one singled homed to the WAN router. Or better yet, dual-home these two switches to the router for maximum connectivity from outside your property 4. hang IP PTZ camera(s) off LAN switch via cate/cat6 cables up to 100m good luck,