I posted this in another forum but didn't get any responses. I'm hoping you guys can help me out.
I'm a lonely IT admin that somehow got roped into supporting our company's entire IP camera setup. This system was installed by an outside contractor but then we had a falling out with that...
Monoprice.com is where I buy all my cables. For anything over 14ft. I make a custom cable from a 1000ft spool. A couple of connectors and crimpers is all you need. I keep 3ft, 7ft, and 14ft patch cables at the ready for anything smaller.
I've used many of the switches with SFP ports like joeseph recommended. Never had one issue with them. I recently had some trouble with PoE on some of Netgear's larger switches so I cannot recommend them. The Cisco SG line of switches is what we are currently using for larger deployments and...