Cisco Network Hardware for 300 IP Cameras

[theprotechtors]

Ref a setup required for approximately 300 Surveillance Cameras connected within a LAN. Around 250 Gigabit Optical Media Converters will bring in these cameras to Control Room. Please advise appropriate Cisco hardware to accomodate 300 IP cameras running on around 12Mbps which makes around 3.7Gbps total on 250 ports. The cameras then have to be distributed to network video recorders and several computers for recording and live monitoring. Please advise a system that is capable of accomodating around fity more cameras in future. Your help will be highly appreciated.

[CSCO12165174]

Depends on your budget.

And depends on what servers/recorders you have to capture all those streams.

A really nice solution would be to stack some 3750s which would provide plenty of bandwidth.

However that would be quite expensive.

I quickly worked out you will have around 350MBps going through your network?

So it depends where all that data is going.

If it is all going to one device that device will need either 4 or more gigabit ports bundled into an etherchannel or 1 10gigabit connection.

but if you have 20+ recorders/servers that are sharing the load equally then I guess you could get away with just gigabit ports for the end devices and etherchannel between the switches?

hard to say really without knowing exactly what budget and hardware you are using.