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Power over Ethernet (PoE)

I've got a couple of wireless access points here in front of me but I want you to
look at these really really closely.

First of all take a look at this guy right here now now as a wireless access point
should have it's got an RJ 45 connector and you'll also see that it has a power
attachment so I can plug it AC adapter into this guy.

Well that's fantastic.

But I want you to now look at this guy that I've got right here in front of me now
notice that this fella doesn't have an AC adapter connection.

This fellow right here doesn't need.

In fact can't use an AC adapter but you would say Well I think it needs electricity
and it most certainly does.

It's taking advantage of an 802.3 standard called Power over Ethernet.

When you have a number of devices and you're putting them up on walls and
everything.

It's a real hassle to have to come up with a way to get an old lexical cord up
there so you can power these things.

So it's very common with wireless access points particularly in more enterprise
environments to take advantage of power over ethernet.

It simply means that you have to have a wireless access point that's capable of it.

And by the way even at first when I showed you can use power over you and it you
just unplug the adapter so you have to have a wireless access point that can do
P.O.E.

And you also have to have a switch that is P.O.E. capable.

Now I don't have a P.O.E. switch on me right here but here's a picture one to give
you an idea.

Now this particular switch you'll notice that some of the ports have yellow
underneath them.

Those are the reports.

They work just like any other switch port except they also provide power through
the actual cable to the individual devices.

So Power over Ethernet is extremely convenient.

Now if you don't have a P.O.E. switch you can get something like this.

This is a P.O.E. injector.

The idea behind the PC injector is you've got a cable running from your switch and
this switch is not capable.

Get the idea.


And it runs into this guy and then it runs out.

To your P.O.E. capable wireless access point.

So an injector he needs to have power.

But look how new it is.

So the injector has to have power because your switch doesn't have the power.

Therefore you can use an injector.

This is pretty common.

A lot of people when they're putting up just one wireless access point instead of
buying a whole P.O.E. switch.

They'll just grab an injector use that to get that one wireless access point P.O.E.
power and everything's great now he's been around for a while the original P.O.E.
standard was 802.3af the 802.3af was a great standard of work beautifully except it
have one problem.

It had a maximum wattage of about fifteen point four watts.

Now that may sound like a lot to you and me but it's not enough to run the later
generation more powerful wireless access points.

So a new version came out.

Known as P.O.E.+, P.O.E.+ runs on the 802.3at standard and pumps out a whopping 30
watts which so far is more than enough to make any device run just fine using
P.O.E.

A PoE WAP needs to use a PoE switch or a PoE injector but does not need a directly
connected 110 plug

PoE uses 802.af originally, but has been replaced with PoE+ using the 802.3at
standard that supports the newer WAPs supporting up to 30 watts

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