Most POE Access points get their power through the cable. A standard
Cat5 cable will work. However, the other end of that cat5 cable needs
to be plugged into a switch that provides that power. If you don't have
a POE switch, you can get POE "bricks." These units plug into a wall
and have network jacks. You go from the switch to the brick and from
the brick to the Access Point.
The aforementioned Cisco AP1200s work as described above as well.
I hope that helps.
Alex Inman
Director of Technology
Whitfield School
St. Louis, MO
314.434.5141
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[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Norman Maynard
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 2:41 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: POE Access points
We just installed a Netgear WG302, which advertised itself as POE. But
when
it arrived, the literature (such as it was) had a caveat - which is,
provided your (cat5) cables are so equipped.
Ours obviously are not, because there was no power with just the cable.
So I don't know if this particular unit would serve you - we're very
small -
but I would suggest discovering more about POE abilities and
requirements.
Norman Maynard
On Dec 14, 2007 12:14 AM, Tom Phelan <tphelan@peddie.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:35:01 -0500, Carl Campion
<cscampion@comcast.net>
> wrote:
> <snip>
> >I can use a recommendation on a Power Over Ethernet wireless access
> >point.
> >
> <snip>
>
> I highly recommend the Cisco Aironet 1200 series POE APs. We have over
100
> and they are bullet proof. Also, if you do any VLANing with the
wireless
> network they handle this nicely. Try that with a cheaper AP!
>
> We also use software from Airwave to manage the configuration of our
AP's.
> The software isn't cheap, but it pays for itself many times over by
making
> the management of the AP's configuation and firmware upgrades almost
> trivial. We run the Airwave product on a VMware server--while we now
use
> VMware's ESX server, the free VMware Server worked fine. It saves the
cost
> of having to dedicate a box to the software.
>
> --
> Tom Phelan
> Director of Technology
> Peddie School
> tphelan@peddie.org
> http://www.peddie.org
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Thornton Friends Upper School
Silver Spring, MD
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