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District camera estate consolidated onto fourteen intersection cabinets and a fibre ring

A district ran 120 cameras from a mix of small unmanaged switches, and the recorder room could not tell which camera had failed. Fourteen intersection cabinets now carry the PoE, two aggregation switches feed the recorders over 10G, and a power budget per port makes an outage traceable.

District camera estate consolidated onto fourteen intersection cabinets and a fibre ring

The need

The cameras were added over six years: some poles had their own small switch, some ran straight to the recorder, and a few shared a cabinet with the traffic signals. When a camera dropped, someone drove out to find it. Two intersections also needed ANPR cameras with higher power draw, and the recorder room wanted a single feed per cabinet instead of forty separate uplinks.

What was specified

ModelQtyRole in the project
RS1024K-P48-4S-10G-M6Intersection cabinet, 48 PoE ports for cameras and ANPR, 10G SFP into the ring
RS1025K-16LG-2S-10G2Recorder-room aggregation, sixteen ports, 10G SFP to each cabinet
RS1001KP-1S12PoE converter for isolated poles that carry one camera each

Why that split

Forty-eight ports is the right size for a cabinet that serves a junction and its four approaches, and it leaves room for the ANPR additions without a second box. The recorder room gets one link per cabinet over 10G, which removes the forty separate uplinks and gives the ring a path around a failed span. Single-camera poles stay on a converter because a full switch there would be idle capacity and another device to power.

Result

  • A camera that stops drawing power shows on the port, so the drive-out starts at the right cabinet.
  • Each cabinet presents one link to the recorders instead of forty separate uplinks.
  • ANPR cameras sit in the same cabinet as the junction cameras, on a separate VLAN.

Quantities in the table are the planned build, not a bill of materials for a specific tender.

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