Steven Howes wrote:

>> Does anyone know of any small hubs, roughly equivalent to the small 5 &
>> 8 port ones you can buy for home use, that have the ability to supply
>> PoE power to peripheral units? I have a potential application that
>> could use cheap items that could supply such power, without going to a
>> full rack mount switch at considerable expense. 
> 
> If its only a handful of items you could try one of those power bricks
> with 2 rj45 sockets on it. One goes to the switch the other goes to the
> patch panel etc and it adds PoE to the cable. Saves forking out for a
> new switch just for a phone or two 

Here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet they show such a
"brick": a D-Link "PoE injector".

Gerhard

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