Help with a new IP system

[Dilan 0]

Hey guys,

 

Im currently building a new house in Australia. I have found a cabler that is going to run cat6 cables from various places around the house to a patch panel (around 12 cables).

 

Now doing a bit of research into IP megapixel cameras has got me interested and it is something I plan to do sometime later down the track.

 

Now say I was going to install ~5 of these IP megapixel cameras around the house and make use of POE. Would it be alright to run these cables to the same patch panel as the other network cables I will be running?

 

So it would go:

 

PC network cables (Cat6) around the house (x12) + Cat6 cables in the ceilings and roofs inside/outside the house for the IP cameras (~x5) ->to ONE 24port patch panel.

 

If that is right, what happens after that.

 

Can I just buy a 24port switch that has POE and then plug all the cameras and PCs into the same switch? Is this secure/safe?

 

Sorry about the newb questions, just researching at the moment!

[Digital_Max 0]

Hey mate,

 

You can take all your IP cams back to the main switch to make it easier to service in future, you will also need to have a POE switch to power the cameras as long as the cameras are POE.

 

a 1.3 Mega-pix cam will stream 24mb per second so times that by number of cameras to calculate type/size of POE switch to get.

 

if you wanted to record at D1 res then you would need a recording software that will support Mega-Pix cams, a decent software would cost around $400 AUD plus camera licenses.

 

good luck.

[thewireguys 3]

Hey mate,

 

You can take all your IP cams back to the main switch to make it easier to service in future, you will also need to have a POE switch to power the cameras as long as the cameras are POE.

 

a 1.3 Mega-pix cam will stream 24mb per second so times that by number of cameras to calculate type/size of POE switch to get.

 

if you wanted to record at D1 res then you would need a recording software that will support Mega-Pix cams, a decent software would cost around $400 AUD plus camera licenses.

 

good luck.

 

This is alittle high. Acti 1.3 megapixel cameras have a maximum bandwidth of 6megs with Arecont h.264 less then that.

[Digital_Max 0]

yes you are right, my bad, the 5 mega pix cam i'm working on is streaming 24megs per second.

 

thank wire guy, cheers.