blackphnx@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (razor) wrote:
Hi guys, im just new in this forum. Im looking info about Power Over
Ethernet. It would be great if someone will give me a link for this.
I'd start with
http://poweroverethernet.com/ and Google.
It's an interesting technology, but still in it's infancy, and
suffering from the chicken/egg problem. I've started to deploy it in
limited ways for some of my clients, and it does what it's supposed
to.
Since it's still early, you have to be wareful of products claiming
802.3af when they aren't (Linksys WAPPOE devices, for instance, apply
power to the spare pairs without bothering to check if there's a valid
client on the other end).
Prices tend to be obscenely high, though the PhiHong stuff is on the
order of $25 for the single-port midspan.
Finding client devices with PoE already in them isn't easy, life will
be so much better when the client hardware is cheap enough that it's
installed as a matter of course in all but the lowest-end devices.
I haven't gotten to the point where I'm buying products specifically
for their PoE capabilities...