cat 5 and poe support

[binoyjosephstanly]

hi all

at customer site thay have a network set up with cat 5 cable is it possible to go for poe using cat 5 or cat 5 e is required. please suggest.

i will appreciate all the posts

Regds

Binoy

[ankbhasi]

Hi Binoy,

Cat5 should work fine but if you have gig interfaces with poe and option for 5e is possible it is recommended but if option for 5e is not possible cat5 should work fine with poe gig interfaces also.

HTH

Ankur

[royalblues]

Binoy,

Cat5 shouldn't be a problem with POE

Power can be supplied in two ways over CAT cables:

For Cisco ILP, inline power is provided over data pairs 2 and 3 (RJ-45 pins 1,2 and 3,6) at 48V DC.

For IEEE 802.3af, power can be supplied in the same fashion (pins 1,2 and 3,6) or over pairs 1 and 4 (RJ-45 pins 4,5 and 7,8).

HTH, rate if it does

Narayan