Routing

Routing: remote access and isolated sites

As soon as an installation has to be viewed from outside, the router becomes the critical component. It carries the site's internet connection, it opens the VPN tunnel to the recorder and it separates the camera network from the office network. Multi-WAN models accept two connections and switch from one to the other, which limits the interruption to monitoring when the main line goes down.

For a site with no fixed line — a building site, a car park, an isolated technical room — 4G LTE and 5G routers take over by SIM card, some of them in an outdoor version powered over PoE, to be fitted on the pole alongside the camera. In that case, check the upload speed actually available on site: that is what limits the number of streams that can be viewed remotely, not the camera. Hardware controllers complete the set-up when several sites have to be administered from a single point.

• Gigabit, multi-gigabit and multi-WAN VPN routers
• Desktop, outdoor and portable 4G LTE and 5G routers
• Industrial IoT gateways with dual SIM
• Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 7 routers for small sites
• Hardware controllers for centralised equipment management

A multi-site project to cable? Let's talk it through. See also Wireless equipment and switches.