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Does Dahua make a wifi battery powered camera? Let me explain what exactly I'm looking for. I currently have a Dahua system from Andy with 8 2mp starlight cameras and a 4ks2 NVR that's a few years old now. I want to add a camera to my chicken coop but it would have to be wifi as I do not...

It's true. I have thousands and thousands of non poe devices plugged into poe ports. I even have ports that have power injectors plugged in for devices that don't follow the standard for whatever reason. It's not a concern at all.

You shouldn't need to cut any wires. If the device plugged in does not need PoE, it won't request it from the switch during the negotiation process.

Mostly Axis P3367-VE 5mp and a couple Axis P3717-PLE 8mp multi-sensor cameras. One of the multi-sensor cams run is over 450 feet and it draws 7 watts of poe and negotiates at 100/full without issues. The cable is Commscope cat 6 and these are connected to Cisco WS-C3850-48F-S switches, so not...

I would at least try it before you buy new equipment. I manage an enterprise network and occasionally we have runs that are as long as yours, I've not yet had a poe camera that hasn't worked at that distance. There's definitely a chance it won't work but it doesn't hurt to try.

Commscope patch panels and chatsworth racks.

That's great haha. You gotta do what you gotta do sometimes!

Our cabling contractor does the cable labels. A label at the jack location is labeled idf.rack.patchpanel.port. So it would look like 2.1.5.44 or similar. It's a little more complicated going the other direction. As far as switch port descriptions I put all cameras/access control/access points...

That must've been some high quality cat6! We don't cold enough weather here to have ice like that haha, that's impressive. We have a really good operations director that understands the importance of a quality network and the work it takes to install and maintain it. There's very little he will...

Is that ice or something? I'd say those were bad days for sure haha.

I've always thought it would be pretty cool to work on those towers. I've never been one to shy away from heights. Looks fun haha. Aside from the sheer size it sounds like we have some similar equipment. We currently have dual 10g links from every IDF to MDF and dual 10g links from each site...

Just curious who here does networking for a living? Maybe some pics or descriptions of what kind of equipment you deal with on a daily basis? I have worked as the sole network engineer for a medium sized school district for the past 6 years. We have a city wide network that spans 22 campuses...

True, if you have a lot of devices with higher poe requirements you may run out of power. For 98% of situations it won't have any problems. I run 4 cameras and 2 cisco APs with plenty of budget left.

Not sure why these aren't more highly favored here. They really are great switches and probably the most compact 16 port on the market. I have 2 of the lgs308p which is the 8 port version with all 8 ports being poe+. They've been flawlessly running for over a year now without any reboots. Great...

Veracity camswitch is one I've seen used in enterprise on occasion. They work well but aren't cheap for a homeowner. I'm sure there are others that I'm not aware of.