Anyone Have A Recommendation For A Rack Mount Surge Protector For Outdoor Cameras?

The recommendation of L-Com units recently was made in several color comments in Four Major Outdoor Camera Install Problems:

You won't protect cabling between camera and surge protection.

Make sure they are rated for PoE/PoE+/HPoE or whatever you are passing through.

Saw these at ISC.

Ditek

Thanks for your help on this guys!

After doing some more research I found that APC makes a modular product that fits the bill and is rated for POE.

APC 24 position chassis for replaceable data line surge protection modules, 19" rackmount, 1U

APC Surge Module for CAT6 or CAT5/5e Network Line, Replaceable, 1U, use with PRM4 or PRM24 Chassis

Second on Ditek

The simple Hik switches offer 4 KV surge protection for PoE ports.

You can read more here.

Some of the building I have worked on are ancient and do not have sufficient electrical grounding. When the wind blows against a camera or the outside of device high voltages are present and they will look for an easy path to ground. 

I can put in a "third" on the Ditek filters. Great engineering and construction. If you are willing to use grounded CAT cable you can put the rack mount filter at the headend. It's slick and supports 12 units in one housing.

If you don't want to use grounded cable you can use the DTK-MRJPOES and ground the chassis to a good electrical ground. 

Vigitron makes a small filter called the Vi2001 which does not seem to need grounding and fits directly in a ethernet port. 

Both Ditek and Vigitron are great companies.

I find that depending on the age of the building and its electrical ground these filters are critical. Bad grounding can fry a device. I had two wireless radios that smoked up exactly at the same moment on the same building (feeding two separate links). 

I install these filters in most of my outdoor integrations as insurance.