[143694] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Sun Aug 14 23:10:34 2011
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net>
To: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>, "khuon@neebu.net" <khuon@neebu.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:09:50 -0400
In-Reply-To: <CAEmG1=oCAPe101+UkBUKcmyNi1LYcyJyS6VndFy+qfFfLsdzPw@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Of course, if he had local AC power available, it would kinda defeat one =
of
> the points of having PoE, which is to be able to put switches where there
> isn't a convenient AC drop to begin with.
But wait, there is more...
Maybe you want your POE devices (like phones) to stay alive during a power =
failure, without having to put UPS's everywhere.
And anything else that is POE (cameras, thermostats, etc)