Coax to Fiber to IP to Coax?

[Knuckles2002 0]

Hello All,

I could use some advice before I take this project on if it’s even possible. My client has a HikVision (model ds-7216HGHI-SH) DVR. They need two coax cameras fixed that are about 4000+ feet from the country club house for a golf course. They initially had a direct fiber run from the club house but the fiber broke somewhere underground. I wouldn't be able to fix that because it was a direct bury and the layout of the course now. They have a little tennis house around 2000 feet away from where the cameras are located. In that tennis house is a switch and fiber optic cable (see pic) that was trenched from the country club network to tennis house. What I wanted to know is this even possible?

My installment thought processes is:

1. Convert the two coax cameras to fiber optic cable
OR
1a. Convert the two coax to IP then to fiber.

Not sure if you could even convert coax to fiber. Category to fiber yes.

2. Run fiber to the tennis building
3. Convert fiber to Ethernet Cat 6
4. Install Cat 6 into an open port on the switch that runs back to the country club network.
5. Come out of switch in country club network and convert it to coax and into the HikVision DVR

The known…

1. Might need to put power on the pool where the cameras are and a waterproof box to store the conversion stuff.
2. I can’t fix the old fiber because they don’t want to.
3. I can’t use repeater to boost signal as wire will be buried

Concerns I have…

1. It sounds like it could work but have doubts.
2. Can I take Analog to digital and back and have it work.

Can anyone with experience with something like this provide advice. Do you think this would work?

Thanks for your suggestions and help,

Frank G.

 

[jeromephone 6]

I would go to a fiber to cat IP and get new cameras.  To muddy the waters you can get a converter to run ethernet over coax. My goal would be to have the fewest converts etc as possible.  Ip cameras are cheap enough now that ditching the old analog ones should not be that expensive

[Knuckles2002 0]

I would love to do that but not possible. There's about 20+ cameras and the board won't approve the expense to do that. So I'm stuck with coax/analog.