Why Surveillance Networks Collapse at the Core
Posted by Jerry Tildsen on Feb 27, 2026
Why Your Surveillance Network Collapses at the Core Switch (And It’s Not the Cameras)
Most surveillance problems get blamed on cameras. Or the recorder. Or the VMS.
But in larger deployments, the failure point is often the network.
Specifically: uplinks that were never sized for real aggregate video traffic.
Deployment takeaway
PoE port count is not network capacity. Up
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Why Large Surveillance Systems Fail: Storage Throughput Reality
Posted by James Everett on Feb 26, 2026
Why Large Surveillance Systems Fail (And It’s Not the Terabytes)
Most storage conversations start with retention days. How many TB. How many days. How many cameras.
But the real failure point in larger deployments is usually simpler.
The recorder can’t write fast enough when motion spikes across dozens of cameras at once.
Deployment takeaway
Capacity answers how m
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