[134244] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: POE bump-in-the-wire conversion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Fri Dec 31 12:49:23 2010
To: tagno25@gmail.com
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:49:19 -0500
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin-4zN=GhdPa1s63+2LwVhdKHAFFhvD_39itQ+D@mail.gmail.com>
(Philip Dorr's message of "Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:26:19 -0600")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I was aware of this device (being a big Ubiquiti fan), but have yet to
find anyone who has direct experience with using them on a 3524-PWR.
Have you actually tried this (on a 3524-PWR, not a 3550 or anything
later-but-pre-standard)? The equipment will be quite happy with
16v...
-r
Philip Dorr <tagno25@gmail.com> writes:
> The Ubuquti Instant 802.3af seems to do what you want (as long as the
> equipment can handle 16v)
>
> http://ubnt.com/8023af
> http://ubnt.com/downloads/instant8023af.pdf
>
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Robert E. Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com> wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps someone from this august list can offer a clue here.
>>
>> Have: Cisco 3524-PWR (paleo-POE, pre-802.3af Cisco standard).
>>
>> It runs the 7960Gs great.
>>
>> Have: Wireless AP stuff that wants 12v on the unused pairs for
>> passive POE. 48v will let the magic smoke out.
>>
>> Might buy: phone that does 802.3af
>>
>> Want to run these with the 3524-PWR.
>>
>> I can't imagine that nobody makes a bump-in-the-wire converter for
>> this application, but haven't been able to find anything other than
>> 802.3af to the passive POE use case.
>>
>> Anyone got a pointer for me?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -r
>>
>>
>>
