There are many different manufactures. In fact, some of the wiring vendors have gotten into the act with "Powered Patch Panels". The patch panel supply's the power.
What you should check is if your camera's require High Power (IEEE 802.3at PoE standard, sometimes called "POE+", 25 W per port) If you need 802.3at for your camera's you would want to find out before you by all 802.3af gear On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Gogan, James P <[email protected]> wrote: > I know this question has been asked before, but it wasn't anything that was > on our radar at the time and experiences may have evolved over time. > > We have a possible need for PoE midspan devices, not so much for APs, but > for security cameras (which could number in the thousands before they're > done) -- many of them to be located in buildings without any PoE Ethernet > switches and with no life-cycle network funds on the horizon. > > Ideally, I'd like something that's SNMP-manageable and has ssh (ok, I'll > settle for telnet) capability. 8-16 ports would be nice. > > Anything like that out there these days and, if so, what's the experience > been with them? > Thanks in advance. > > -- Jim Gogan > Director, Networking > Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
