Perspective
Eden treats surveillance as a network workload first. A camera is an endpoint. A recorder is a storage target. The network has to carry the traffic, deliver the power, and fail gracefully — otherwise nothing else matters.
Her sizing work starts with bandwidth ceilings (peak simultaneous streams at peak resolution and frame rate), PoE budgets (per-port and per-switch, with headroom for PTZ and heaters), and failure domains (how many cameras drop if this switch reboots?). The most common design flaw she catches is underbuilt switching — entry-level PoE switches that meet the spec on paper but fail under real load.
Approach
She prefers managed PoE switching with monitoring and per-port visibility, and favors enterprise-grade networking over the consumer-adjacent “security-only” gear that ships with some bundled kits.