IDS peak 2.8.0 / uEye+ firmware 3.33

Point-to-Point Connection

Connect each 10GigE camera directly to a network interface card (NIC) or a port of a multiport card of your host PC. This connection requires one card or port for each camera.

Advantage: Each camera can use the full bandwidth of the Ethernet connection.

Fig. 53: Direct point-to-point connection of multiple cameras to one host PC

Connection via switch

Connect a 10GigE camera via one or a cascade of switches to the host PC.

Advantage: You can extend the total line length. The length of each cable segment can be up to 100 m. Use a PoE switch to directly power your camera without additional I/O cable.

Disadvantage: If you use a switch to connect multiple cameras to a single host PC, they must share the bandwidth of the single connection between switch and PC.

Fig. 54: Extension of the total line length using switches

Fig. 55: Operating multiple cameras via switch

Multiple Cameras and Host PCs

You can connect multiple cameras and multiple host PCs to one switch. Each camera can only be opened by one host PC at a time. Nevertheless, other PCs in the network can still discover it.

Fig. 56: Multiple cameras and host PCs connected via switch

Firewall

The control channel has the specific UDP port 3956 (GVCP port). But the UDP port of the other channels (stream, message, ...) is dynamically assigned. Thus, using the camera behind an external firewall is not possible.

The built-in firewall of your operating system or firewall software that is installed locally on your PC usually do not cause problems.