Okay and hello everybody, Paul Richards here, Chief Streaming Officer at PTZ Optics
Matthew Davis product manager. As you can see we're in black and white in honor of
our history of live streaming which is going to air this Friday July 29th
on YouTube live. WooHoo, yay history. And today's vlog number 10.
Yeah lucky 10. Lucky number 10, and we're going to talk about power?
Yeah, yeah so today we're going to be talking about power and more specifically power
over ethernet, to going back not too far in the wayback machine
we were always told never, ever, ever, ever, to run power alongside your signal
data cables. As we begin to take a little bit more of a stronghold and replace
existing phone systems however problem presented itself and that problem was
the fact that our traditional phones got their power from the main system.
VoIP phones on the other hand we are not able to receive power over the network.
So in 2000 we had cisco come up with the first successful i'll be it a
proprietary POE solution. Within a few short years by 2003 the IEEE had
created a standard around this, 802.3af. So the POE standard started out by
defining the ability to send up to 15.4 watts over network cabling to power a device.
Fast forward to 2009, and the standard was updated for POE plus with the ability
to provide 25.5 watts of power. Now because technology can never sit still
we have POE++ on the horizon now, they're saying about 2016 or 2017
it should become a standard and it will have the ability to send up to 96 watts down that Ethernet cable.
Wow that's a lot of power.
So let's think about that for one moment,
what can you do with 96 watts of power?
If we were to think about it for a moment, modern 60 inch displays could be
powered by that one single cable now that also provides them the network
connection. Modern laptops could easily be powered by this
it's just really really exciting to think about the devices and the ease of
installation that's coming. Now I'm going to go out a little bit of a limb,
I know recently we had talked a little bit with our go green initiatives about
solar panels. Something that's always intrigued me with the POE switches would
be the ability to have basically a solar panel but has POE it outputs goes to a
switch that's able to manage the power.
This would mean almost anybody could easily set up their own solar panel system.
Maybe not the mounting but at least getting the network up and running for it.
I don't think anybody is doing that but if we need to see. And kind of coming
back to the cameras we talked about POE for the cameras. Yes.
So if you saw the vlog about five or six episodes ago we talked about how Wi-Fi
Texas has POE injectors that you can buy. Yeah and in fact they just came out with a
really nifty new solution that is actually able to sit there in it again
going a little greener be able to disable the power depending on what it
needs, so that you're not getting phantom draws. And I think we're going to have
them on the live webinar sometime in august and exactly can't remember
exactly which time, but they have actually switches like eight ports switches
for like a hundred dollars.
Yeah to add, they have some wonderful what they call like mid spans,
so if you've got an existing networks which you don't want to spend the buku
bucks to upgrade to a POE enabled network switch you can throw one of their midst
pans in line. And I believe, don't quote me on this, that they were able to
achieve up to gig speeds.
Well that sounds awesome so look forward to some more information about POE on
that webinar and hopefully that was a great little history on the POE. Yeah.
Thanks for joining us everyone. Thanks Everybody.