On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 13:15 -0400, Michael Richardson wrote: > There are 12-port units that add PoE to a data cable, but they are > also very expensive. It seems to me that the simplest solution would > actually be a patch cable with the relevant power pins seperated. > You'd then use this as the patch between punch-down and switch.
POE is more complex than that. The power is on the data pins and there is some form of signaling between the switch and the device that happens before power is sent over the line to ensure the device is POE ready. BTW, there are a lot of different POE switches available now. Linksys has 4, 8, and 24 port versions which are priced quite reasonable. John
