Free engineering tool
CCTV Bandwidth Calculator
Estimate aggregate CCTV camera bandwidth and design headroom with a transparent preliminary formula.
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PRELIMINARY ESTIMATE—
Enter assumptions and calculate.
Formula and limitations
cameras × Mbps × (1 + headroom)The result estimates camera-stream traffic only. Include client viewing, recording replication, management traffic, switching overhead, uplink design, multicast behaviour and failure scenarios in the final network design.