Topic: Panduit DPoE 1Gig Power Patch Panel

[tonyburkhart]

Well, there is a first time for everything. Has anyone else used these? I've never even heard of it till today, when a friend of mine did an install to replace a fully hosted system and install a Star2Star system.

Powered patch panels... who knew? Not me :)

PDF installers guide - http://www.panduit.com/heiler/InstallInstructions/PN426G.pdf

[telemarv]

That's quite cool! How does it compare price wise to PoE switch vs reg switch and PoE patch panel?

[NFCphoneman]

I don't get it...why would you want to use one of those?  Part of the beauty behind using a modular system is the ease of switching out components.  What happens when one of these things go bad?  You have to rip off all of the cables and reterminate?

What am I missing?

[MacGyver]

I'm with Larry.  Aren't you losing the cross connect aspect so to speak?

[hbiss]

What Larry and Trace said.

-Hal

[tonyburkhart]

agree. total suck. no reason for it and if you ever add or change... oh well, you gotta redo everything. the point of this post was to bring it to attention because it was an oddity to troubleshoot and maybe this would help keep it in the minds :)

i don't understand it at all

[hbiss]

Makes sense only in the minds of IT "professionals".

-Hal

[bluzman]

This tech avoids anything that says Panduit.

[ShumzzR]

I would just use the poe vlan switch star2star supply's with every pbx.

[tonyburkhart]

They did. I was just stating I'd never heard of or seen that product prior.