Knowledge Base What Omada Switches Do for CCTV Surveillance?
1. Surveillancen Features.
1.1 PoE Auto Recovery - for Easy OAM: Prevent the cameras from the minimum possibility of data snooping, tampering, and broadcast storm. Also saves maintenance costs by eliminating manual monitoring and rebooting—vital for hard-to-reach devices.
1.2 Extend Mode - for Long Distance Transmission: With extend mode (by decrease port speed to 10Mbps), the PoE transmission distance reaches up to 820ft, which is perfect for IP Camera deployment in large areas.

1.3 Continuous PoE - for always-on working: Continuous PoE guarantees uninterrupted power delivery to cameras and other PD devices, even when the switch is upgrading or rebooting.

1.4 IGMP Snooping – for Multicast Optimization: Ensures a better network experience for applications like IPTV, by optimizing multimedia traffic delivery.

1.5 QoS - for Lag-Free Experience: Designate the priority of traffic based on QoS(Quality of service), ensuring latency sensitive applications like voice and video, remain clear and lag-free.

1.6 Loop Detection – For Stable Surveillance Networking: Loop Detection ensures the stability of CCTV surveillance networks by automatically identifying and blocking unintended network loops. In environments with many switches, accidental loops can cause broadcast storms, severe congestion, and video stream interruptions. With Loop Detection enabled, the switch quickly isolates the faulty port, preventing network outages and guaranteeing continuous, reliable video monitoring.

1.7 IP Camera Recognition*: By detecting ONVIF-capable devices and analyzing camera-specific network behavior, the switch can accurately recognize connected CCTV cameras without manual configuration. This ensures faster deployment, simplified management, and greater reliability in surveillance environments.
1.8 Abundant product portfolios - For all you need. Omada switches offer a wide range of models with different port counts, speed, PoE standards, and PoE power budgets, allowing customers to select the ideal switch for any CCTV surveillance deployment. Whether powering a few IP cameras in a small installation or supporting dozens of high-power PTZ cameras in a large monitoring network, Omada provides flexible options that ensure stable connectivity, sufficient power delivery, and reliable long-term operation across diverse security environments.
2. Security Features
2.1 Management VLAN: Management VLAN can separate the management network from the data network and lower the risk of being hacked.

2.2 Surveillance VLAN: One-click to assign VLAN to ports connected to IPC, enabling Port isolation, Flow control, QoS at the same time, ensure higher security and smoother video streaming.

2.3 Port Isolation: Port isolation easily divides traffic for downlink ports to avoid snooping and tampering and isolates broadcast storm for higher security and performance.

3. Management and Maintainance
3.1 Omada Central Essentials — Free, Easy, and Unified Cloud Management for Surveillance and Networks: Omada Central Essentials is a free, simplified version of Omada Central. Upgrading from Omada Cloud Essentials, this easy-to-use, cloud-based platform provides centralized management and monitoring for Omada and VIGI networking and surveillance systems, including access points, switches, gateways, cameras, NVRs, and solar power systems. It's the ideal solution for surveillance networks / systems and small businesses.


3.2 Cable test: The Cable Test feature helps quickly diagnose wiring issues in CCTV networks by identifying faults such as open circuits, short circuits, and cable length errors. This allows installers and technicians to troubleshoot camera connectivity problems more efficiently, reduce onsite maintenance time, and ensure stable video transmission across all surveillance links.
3.3 NAT Traversal*: NAT Traversal enables remote access to CCTV cameras and NVR systems even when they are located behind routers or firewalls using private IP addresses. By allowing secure communication through NAT devices, this feature simplifies remote monitoring, eliminates complicated manual port forwarding, and ensures that surveillance systems can be accessed reliably from anywhere.
*Under developing at Omada Access series switches.
