On Jun 5, 2008, at 5:08 PM, Bill Michaelson wrote: > > I'm considering using a PoE switch like this... > > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item- > details.asp?EdpNo=3023334&CatId=2800 > > ...to power as many as 24 Polycom phones of varied kinds. > > The sales lit indicates >190 watts available for PoE devices. But > I'm concerned about a problem someone reported elsewhere... > > They said... > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------ > Is there a reason that Polycom phones do not support PoE classes? > We ran into a scenario recently where we could only power 11 > Polycom 550's on a 24 port switch. > > This is because the Polycoms do not announce themselves as being in > a specific PoE class, even though the phones only need 6W the > switch assumes they need as much power as possible and allocates > 14.5W to each port. We have had to resort to running unsupported > firmware on the switch to get it to power 24 phones. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------ > > Does anybody here have insight about this? > >
have used many fsm7326p to power 24 phones or 726tp to power 12 phones and they work great _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users