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PoE switch for CCTV: sized by cameras, not by ports alone

A CCTV system fails on watts, metres and frozen cameras — not on port count. This solution page sizes the switch layer for a camera network using the ONV surveillance ranges.

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PoE switch for CCTV: sized by cameras, not by ports alone
Optical Network Video Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.Manufacturer · ONV
Since 2003PoE & industrial networking
440 models11 product lines catalogued
CE · FCC · RoHSPer company statement — certificates available upon request
Shenzhen HQFutian District headquarters
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The range at a glance

CCTV is the application the ONV catalogue is built around — the company lists smart security among its core fields, maintains a dedicated Security Ethernet Switch series, and threads surveillance features (250-metre ports, AI watchdog recovery, per-port PoE budgets) through its PoE lines. A CCTV switch layer is sized by four numbers: camera count, per-camera power at night (IR and heaters change the draw), the longest cable run, and how a frozen camera gets recovered.

The reference build is simple to state: unmanaged or smart PoE at the edge for small clusters, managed PoE where VLANs separate cameras from the business network, 250-metre or extender solutions for the runs that break 100 metres, and an aggregation path to the NVR that carries the summed bitrate with headroom. The security series below — compact gigabit switches for NVR and monitoring stations — completes the layer.

Security Ethernet Switch series models, plus long-distance/AI PoE switch examples (official product names).

ModelOfficial product name
ONV-H3005Gigabit 5-port Ethernet switch
ONV-H3008Gigabit 8-port Ethernet switch
ONV-H3218FGigabit 18-port Ethernet switch
ONV-H3226FGigabit 26-port Ethernet switch
ONV-H3008SGigabit 8-port Ethernet switch
ONV-H1005ES10/100M 5-port Ethernet switch
ONV-H1005S10/100M 5-port Ethernet switch
ONV-H1008ES10/100M 8-port Ethernet switch
ONV-H1008S10/100M 8-port Ethernet switch
ONV-H3005SGigabit 5-port Ethernet switch
ONV-H1016PLS-25010M/250 meters transmission gigabit uplink 18-port PoE switch
ONV-H1016PLS10M/250 meters transmission gigabit uplink 18-port PoE switch
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Featured model — datasheet values

ONV-H3008 product photo

The monitoring-station end of the system: the ONV-H3008 security-series switch — 8 gigabit ports, 16 Gbps capacity, a 2K MAC table — a compact data switch for NVR and viewing-station duty.

ONV-H3008 — Gigabit 8-Port Ethernet Switch (Security Series)

ParameterDatasheet value
Ports8 × 10/100/1000Base-T RJ45
Switching capacity16 Gbps (non-blocking)
Forwarding rate11.9 Mpps @64byte
MAC address table2K
Buffer memory2M
Power7W / DC 9–12V, external adapter
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How to choose

Size a CCTV build in this order: list cameras with night-time wattage; group them by cabinet location; measure the three longest runs and choose their fix (standard, long-distance mode, extender or fiber); pick managed or unmanaged by who maintains the site; and finally check the NVR uplink against summed bitrate. Every one of those steps maps to a page in this section — or send the camera list and let us size it.

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Where it is deployed

Retail and hospitality, warehouses and logistics, schools and campuses, parking and perimeters, municipal and traffic cameras — the surveillance estates this catalogue serves.

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Frequently asked questions

How many cameras can one PoE switch handle?

Ports give the ceiling; watts and bitrate give the real limit. A 24-port switch with a 250W budget runs twenty-four 10W cameras comfortably — but sixteen PTZs with heaters may exhaust the budget first. Size by the device list, always.

Do CCTV cameras need gigabit ports?

Individually, no — a camera stream is a few megabits. The gigabit need is aggregate: uplinks and the NVR connection. Many CCTV builds use 10/100M camera ports with gigabit uplinks for exactly this reason.

Talk to the PoE switch team

Send your port count, per-port power and uplink requirements — we reply with the exact models, datasheets and a quotation. MOQ and lead time are confirmed per model and order scope in the quotation.

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