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If the PoE source uses line power without a backup battery it won't.
The CATV amplifiers for my neighborhood are, I believe, powered off the same transformer as my house.
-- glen
most common twisted pair cables
Feb 23, 2007
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Sorry for a late reply. Forgot my post...
If we start to do fibre there would soon be no need for POTS. ISDN is already dead. KVM? Come on, stuff that old crappy PC away and go for something useful. Sun Ray is the answer.
PoE? Well how hard would it be to invent a fibre cable standard with a pair of copper wires in the same covering? Think I just did...
"soon" is not "today". ISDN is pretty widely used across Europe - there is plenty of equipment for it, there are large corporate PBXes using it and KVM extenders are not used to control clients, they are used to control servers in exceptional situations (where other management methods fail or are unsuitable). IP extenders exist but have their trouble. And again, there is plenty of equipment for the existing cabling systems.
It is not about inventing - it is about having the equipment. Try fo find at least three independent manufacturers with a wide variety of IP phones, wireless access points and switches with the described functionality. And of course you will need to have the cable itself, the patch cords, the patch bays, the splicing equipment, the t&m equipment, ...
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