Hikvision 4 Port Fast Ethernet Smart PoE Switch DS-3E1105P-EI-V2

The Hikvision DS-3E1105P-EI-V2 is a four-port Fast Ethernet PoE switch with a login page, and that single difference is the reason to buy it. The DS-3E1 line is the middle rung of this catalogue: DS-3E0 switches are sealed boxes you plug in and forget, DS-3E2 switches are equipment an IT department configures, and DS-3E1 sits between them as the tier called smart.

Smart is the least explained word in the switch aisle, so here is what it buys. You type the switch’s address into a browser, sign in, and see its ports listed with their state — which have something connected, which are delivering power, which have gone quiet. On an unmanaged switch that information is a row of green lights, visible only to whoever is standing in the cupboard.

Where it earns its place on a job

Take the ordinary four-camera install — a clinic, a showroom, the switch on a shelf behind a locked door. Six weeks after handover, one camera stops appearing on the recorder. With an unmanaged switch your only tool is the mains plug: a drive to site, a power cycle of the whole unit, every camera down and every recording gapped. You interrupted three working cameras to reboot the fourth.

The smart tier hands you a smaller instrument. Turn one port off, turn it back on, and the camera on the end of that cable reboots while the other three keep recording. Seeing whether a port is delivering power at all is worth as much again: it separates a failed camera from a failed cable before anyone gets in a van. On a four-camera job the hardware difference between tiers is small money. The difference in support calls is not.

All of it rests on one unglamorous condition: somebody has to write the switch’s address and login into the handover pack. A smart switch nobody can log into is an unmanaged switch that cost more.

Before you order — three things to confirm

• Who holds the login — decide now who records the management address and credentials, and where that record lives once the commissioning engineer has moved on.
• How you will reach the page — it opens from a machine on the same network as the switch. If the cameras sit on an isolated range, settle in advance which laptop can reach it.
• Which revision you are standardising on — this is the V2 revision. When matching switches already on a site, confirm it on the order so your team meets one interface rather than two.

Technical specifications

• Ports: four PoE ports
• Speed class: Fast Ethernet
• Power over Ethernet: yes, on the four PoE ports
• Management tier: smart managed, through a browser-based management page (Hikvision DS-3E1 series)
• Manufacturer and model: Hikvision DS-3E1105P-EI-V2
• Port line-up beyond the PoE ports, power output figures, switching capacity, supported standards and environmental limits are not stated here — full manufacturer datasheet available on request, call 16454

Compatibility

This is a standards-based Ethernet switch, not tied to Hikvision cameras or recorders, and it sits in a mixed system as readily as an all-Hikvision one. Check any device you intend to power over the cable against the datasheet before committing the port. Management runs in a browser, so the machine you use needs nothing installed.

What’s in the box

One Hikvision DS-3E1105P-EI-V2 switch. Carton contents vary between manufacturing revisions, so we confirm what ships with the current revision at the point of order.

Common questions on this model

Do we actually need this over the unmanaged version on a small site?
Honestly, not always. If your team passes the site weekly and a short total outage costs nothing, the unmanaged Hikvision DS-3E0105P-E/M does the same electrical job. The smart tier pays when the site is awkward to reach, or when you answer the phone about it.

Does it need configuring before it will pass traffic?
No. Out of the carton it forwards traffic and powers cameras like any other PoE switch; the management page is opt-in. An installer who never logs in still gets a working switch.

Can I check it from the office instead of driving out?
Only if the office can reach the switch’s network. Within a site, or across a properly routed link, the page opens like any internal one. From outside, you need the same remote access arrangement the recorder needs.

Genuine Hikvision stock, supplied with the official one-year manufacturer warranty and delivery across Egypt. For datasheet figures, stock or a project quotation, call 16454.