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PoE Switch: 9 Brilliant Breakthroughs That Supercharge Your Network
Introduction Picture this: I’m dangling off a ladder at 2 a.m., trying to finish a last-minute security-camera install. Power outlets? None. All I had was a single Cat 6 drop and a trusty PoE switch humming in the rack. One cable—data plus juice—and I was done. That “aha!” moment sold me on power over Ethernet for life. From 2003 to Today—The PoE Timeline The IEEE 802.3af standard officially blessed PoE back in 2003, giving us 15.4 W per port and kicking off two decades of innovation. Demand skyrocketed, so 802.3at (PoE+) doubled the output to 30 W. Fast-forward to the modern 802.3bt era—better known as PoE++—and we’re talking up to 100 W per port for Type 4 devices, enough to...
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