Recommended POE Switch

[h901]

Hi

Is there any specific POE switch that is recommended for use? If not, is there anything one should note when buying a POE switch.

Thanks

 

[fenderman]

Hoe many cams? what cams? etc...

 

[dalepa]

http://amzn.to/2dK2S0l

 

[h901]

Hoe many cams? what cams? etc...

5 hikvision ip cameras

http://amzn.to/2dK2S0l

thanks, i'll check it out

 

[rgarjr]

For 5 Poe cameras u need an 8 port switch. Buffalo, TrendNET, D-Link, TP-Link, NetGear make good switches

 

[Kawboy12R]

Just make sure that the switch has enough POE ports and a power budget sufficient to power all of the cameras. Many 8 port POE switches have 4 POE ports and 4 data-only ports. For instance, the 5 port switch dalepa recommended before knowing you had 5 cameras has 4 POE ports and one data port. Perfect for 4 cameras and the link back to the rest of your network but no good for you. You can get by with 5 cams by using a common 8 port POE switch that has 4 POE ports by adding a 48v POE injector after one of the data ports or powering one camera via 12v if it has a 12v dongle. We'll assume that your 5 cams run from POE (802.3af), not POE+ (802.3at), correct? Usually only big PTZs or cameras with heaters require POE+.

 

[Q™]

I don't think you can go wrong with this switch, a part of the dlink line which @nayr pointed us to recently...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003KJTZYK/ref=dra_a_rv_lb_hn_xx_P320_100?th=1

• Eight (8) 10/100/1000BASE-T PoE /PoE+ Ports
• Two (2) Gigabit SFP Ports
• Supports PoE and PoE+ (802.3af and 802.3at) with 78W PoE power budget
• Supports 802.1Q VLAN, Auto Voice VLAN and Auto Surveillance VLAN
• Advanced features include QoS, Bandwidth Limiting, Link Aggregation, Port Mirroring, Spanning Tree and IGMP Snooping
• Security features include Access Control List (ACL), 802.1X / RADIUS, ARP Spoofing Prevention, and D-Link Safeguard Engine
• Easily managed using intuitive GUI, D-Link Network Assistant Utility, D-View 7, Compact CLI or SNMP
• Limited Lifetime Warranty

 

[h901]

thanks for all the replies.

is there any specific brand that has a good reputation for switches? i know cisco is known for good quality equipment, but a quick search on google and the prices even for a basic one is quite high

so far i've looked at d-link and tp-link

also does the fact that it is managed/unmanaged make a difference when using them for cameras?

 

[rgarjr]

You can't go wrong with the brands I mentioned before. I recently got a Buffalo 16-port PoE switch, works fine.