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Looking For An Alternate Solution - Camera 800' Away With Coax Run

UI
Undisclosed Integrator #1
•Jul 27, 2016

I have a customer that has a need for 2 multi-sensor cameras in a remote part of a 1.2 million sq ft facility. The nearest CCTV IDF we have installed is around 800ft from this corner location. They have a need for 2 cameras, and I'm looking at quoting (2) 9W-H3-3MH-B01 Avigilon cameras. Currently, there is an analog camera and a 110VAC power supply (old Pelco PTZ power supply), so power is available in this location.

I have come across the Planet ivc-2004PT, which will supply POE+ and will uses coax to transmit over Ethernet, sounds like a great idea, but I have my worries with this. Ultimately it's a good bit of bandwidth and I haven't gotten comfortable with the idea of ethernet over Coax yet, and definitely am a little hesitant about this solution. I could pull fiber and install an IDF, but that's a lot of infrastructure in a spot where they probably won't be looking to add any additional cameras and I'm looking for a somewhat cost effective measure to providing this infrastructure to them.

I was looking through the IPVM Coax over Ethernet shoot out, and Planet isn't one of the devices tested. I believe it was Altronix, ComNet, Veracity, NVT, and another off brand. Does anyone see an efficient way that I am overlooking for this solution? Any ideas are appreciated, I've been kicking this around in my head for a couple of days and feel like I'm going in circles. Thanks in advance.

MM
Michael Miller
•Jul 27, 2016

We have been using Vigitron with Avigilon PTZs and Multihead cameras without issues. Sending POE+ 800ft over coax will be an issue so you could use 2 Vi2400A units for your uplink and install a small POE switch at the camera location to connect to the cameras. Cameras connect to the switch via Cat cable then the uplink for the switch will connect to the converter via cat cable and use the coax to connect back to your IDF.

U
Undisclosed #2
•Jul 27, 2016

1.) I'm not quite sure I understand why the fiber route is a bad one. Certainly not the least expensive, but definitely the most robust longterm. You already have a location to power the fiber converters from -- install a small 4-port switch with an SFP connector to terminate your fiber, power the two cameras via POE from the switch, and then bring your fiber back to the IDF using whatever method necessary. I, personally, would not use ethernet over coax either, but we're probably both overreacting to that.....but I'm still not doing it. :)

2.) My backup would be to pull new CAT6 and use ethernet extenders. No need for POE because you can inject at the camera locations, just install extenders along the way to get your signal back and you shouldn't have any issue at all. Also not the least expensive, but again, the 2nd-most robust way you can do it that I can think of.

U
Undisclosed #3
•Jul 27, 2016
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Veracity has a unit with a two-port POE switch on the camera side which, can provide 200 Mbps in bandwidth as well as POE+ and can be powered locally or remotely.

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