Hello guys,
A good friend of mine is renovating a whole apartment building (8 doors) and he wanted my help in upgrading his previous network infrastructure. He wants PoE camera with a NVR, a Akuvox intercom at the main entrance and 1 AP in each apartment with a couple of hardwired jack in every room. He also want to use a single ISP for the whole building (I think he have a good business deal for a 3Gbps up and down FTTH).
What would you recommand as a setup for this situation? Here’s my idea:
- CAT 6 UTP Solid Copper cabling everywhere (or 6A if he can approve the cost difference). For 10Gbe over CAT6 with run - of less than 55m he should be good right?
- 1x 25U Rack to store everything
- 1x Used Dell R210 II Server (8Gb Ram, E3-1220 v2 3.1GHz) with a 10Gbe SFP+ PCIe Card with a cat 6a cable to the ISP modem I’m thinking of running PfSense.
- 1x Used Dell X1052P 48 Port PoE Gigabit SFP+ Switch
- 1x Used Optiplex 7040 SFF ( (Intel Core i5-6500, 16GB Ram) as the NVR for the cameras running BlueIris under Windows 10
- 1x CyberPower CP1500AVRT UPS
- 8x TP-Link EAP610v2 APs
Here’s my vLAN ideas:
Management network
Cameras NVR
Intercom VoIP
One in each of the apartement
Couple of ideas for the APs. Should I broadcast 8 differents SSID on every APs so they can roam around and still be in their own vLAN? Doing that would open the door to someone using the AP’s ethernet port to access all those vlans right (like a bad neighbor)? Or should I limit the vlan to their own AP (the one in their own apartment)?
I’m all ear for your opinion and recommendation for that kind of project.
Thanks!