Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Power over Ethernet (POE)

Power over Ethernet (PoE) allow devices to power up other devices or send electricity over UTP cables that has been connected to the 2 devices. Some switches has also the capability of running POE to power up IP Phones. By default, POE switch's port do attempt to find whether its peer device needs power. The IEEE standard for POE is 802.3af and 802.3at for High-Power POE.

To configure automatic detect and power inline devices type the command:
(config-if)#power inline auto

To configure specific power that needs to be given to the inline device type the command:
(config-if)#power inline consumption

To disable POE ability type the command:
(config-if)#power inline never

-- 25 November 2010 --

No comments:

Post a Comment