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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