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Why did the office network start playing up when the cameras went in?
Because video is nothing like anything that was on that network before. A person working generates bursts: they open an email, download a file and then ask for nothing for ten minutes. An office network is sized for that, plenty of peak capacity and empty almost all the time. A camera does exactly the opposite: it starts sending on the day it is switched on and never stops, the same bit rate, every hour, in the middle of the night and in August too.
And it is not one. It is all of them at once, in the same direction and towards the same place, which is the recorder. That is where the path narrows, and where a network that looked more than adequate starts discarding packets.
A video packet that gets discarded is never asked for again. That is why the symptom is not an error message but jumpy images and gaps in the recording that nobody connects to the network.
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