One thing to plan for just a bit: how to secure the cable plant itself....
Basically want to monitor the complete border around the house as well as the 2-3 possible entrance points onto the property.
Originally got the big switch to run lines to them all and centrally manage it... now thinking running 1k+ of Cat5e snaked underground isn't the best idea, and I should focus on more homerunning to central locations, and then connecting POE cameras for a short 5-20' run.
Thoughts, suggestions?
One thing to plan for just a bit: how to secure the cable plant itself.
With everything home-run to a single POE switch you can do a lot of things to prevent someone from disconnecting the RJ-45 from one of your cameras and monitoring and/or injecting traffic onto your network. You can MAC screen the connection, you can kill the port on disconnect, etc. But as soon as you start distributing small (not very) smart switches around your property you create a number of additional intrusion points that are much harder to protect - e.g., MAC screening is a PITA when there are multiple MACs expected behind one port. And the little switches like the GS110TP don't do much to help you.
You probably also need to make sure you have camera view of the switch housings - just in case. For much the same reason you have (or you should have) camera view of your electric meter, main breaker box and wherever your internet service enters the house.
Paranoia is a gift to a network designer.
Not that you'd be subject to a sophisticated intrusion - or perhaps you would - you rural guys are sketchy sorts
Indeed, but it's not that hard to add a bunch of MACs to the ACL. If you're getting into the many tens of devices and they change fairly regularly then yeah I can see it being a pain. Good ol 802.1x is always an option, too.MAC screening is a PITA when there are multiple MACs expected behind one port. And the little switches like the GS110TP don't do much to help you.
My HP procurve 2520-G-8 or HP procurve 2530-8G-POE+ have never let me down for a small POE switch that typically run $100-200 depending on how hard you hunt for a deal.I know we all have storage related ebay searches... but what about POE switches? I know a lot of us here like to stick to one manufacturer or models, so maybe this is easier if we all 'combine' into this thread?
I'm looking for 4-8 POE port POE switch for cameras in another office/building/room, ideally it would also have 1x SFP Gigabit.
I was looking at: NetGear GS110TP-200NAS because I have a couple of them and they work, but for $120 it seems like I could be getting MORE bang for my buck, especially used.
What are your " GO TO " small POE switches? Make/Model and expected/deal price?
NETGEAR ProSAFE 8-Port PoE Gigabit Smart Managed Switch with 2 Gigabit SFP Ports 53w (GS110TP-200NAS) - Lifetime Warranty-Newegg.com
$10 rebate card, not best deal but direction I'm going.
I also run UBNT switch in my home network, but it's ES-16-XG, with 12 SFP+ ports. I got compatible UBNT SFP+s from fiberstore, all works well.UBNT switches, I've invested into their infra so I'd go with them. I have the US-8-60w, it's an 8 port (4 of poe) for $112. If you need SFP, the US-8-150w which is 8 POE ports with 2 SFP.
Or the cisco SG300 line, we use them at work.