Cisco Aironets POE
by admin on Jun.20, 2006, under Networking, Wi-Fi
I have been looking into running some Aironet 1231s off of POE on the new network I am setting up. What I have found is that the 1200 series Aironets don’t support the IEEE POE standard but have been built to the legacy Cisco inline power. There are multiple ways you can power these devices using power over CAT5. The first and best way to do it is to have a Cisco POE device that can prestandard support. Look at the following link for info on that.
Otherwise what you can do is go with an adapter, you can get an adapter to change from the IEEE standard POE switch back to legacy or you can go from a regular switch and put an active POE adapter in the middle. A company that makes these products and was a great help in researching this is http://www.powerdsine.com . Basically the different between the two standards is one travels on the same pair of wires as the data and the other does not.
June 23rd, 2006 on 9:14 am
[...] B-rad left a comment on my post Wireless Ceiling that the longest cable is only 5′ but you should be able to get good coverage from one ceiling tile in the area. You should then be able to mount an AP above this ceiling tile and running the access point off of POE. I have some info about running an Aironet 1200 series AP using POE in this post Cisco Aironets POE [...]