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Single-Port PSEs Put Power in More Places
A highly integrated single-port controller simplifies PSE design and enables novel implementations such as a wall-plug-powered PSE or a "power forwarder" that powers more than one device off a single port...

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Surge Protection Brings Big Benefits to PoE Systems

Understanding the various causes and characteristics of electrical transients enables designers to safeguard PoE systems from these events with discrete protection circuitry....

Optimize Flyback Magnetics to Empower the PD

In PoE systems, performance of the flyback converter used to step down the 48-V supply in the powered device depends on careful transformer design....

Emerging Standard Drives High-Power PoE Design

Key details of the IEEE802.3at standard, which is to be ratified next year, are available now for designers looking to take advantage of the nearly 60 W allowed to power PDs....

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PoE Offers Many Outlets for Creative Power Design

Since the ratification of the IEEE 802.3af standard nearly four years ago, Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology has seen widespread deployment. Through...

Discrete Components Enable Bold PoE Solutions

Thanks to IEEE 802.3af, Ethernet data transmission lines may now conduct a specified amount of power. Enabling PoE brings a variety of advantages and...

Power Semiconductors Take the Floor at APEC

At the upcoming Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), which will be held March 19-23 in Dallas, several power semiconductor vendors...

Data Points

IC Combines PoE Power Control, Power Conversion National Semiconductor's LM5070 simplifies the design of IEEE-802.3af-compliant powered devices for Power over Ethernet by combining PD interface and power conversion functions in one chip....

High-Power PoE Technology Evolves

Power over Ethernet (PoE), a technology for the delivery of power and Ethernet data on the same cabling, has been around in various forms for almost four...

Navigating the IEEE 802.3af Standard for PoE

The IEEE 802.3af standard for Power over Ethernet (PoE) introduces a new facet to Ethernet networking. Most additions to the 802.3 standard are in the...

Power over Ethernet Nurtures a New Class of Controller Chips

The IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet (PoE) standard was ratified last year. This standard defined the protocols for safely distributing 48-Vdc power over...

Power over Ethernet Eases Design Implementations

PoE will enable the development of many universally interchangeable application devices by superceding the various proprietary solutions in the marketplace....

New IEEE Standard Stimulates Ethernet Powered Devices

Standards play a key role in stimulating new products in emerging markets. When IEEE ratifies the power over Ethernet Standard IEEE 802.3af, it will give voice-over Internet protocol or IP telephones, wireless LAN access points, Web cameras, and similar devices a much needed impetus....


PoE in the news

PoE Features Tackle High-Power and Other Design Challenges

This month at the Power Electronics Technology website, a special section on power over Ethernet presents a series of articles addressing different aspects of PoE design. ...

PoE Products Anticipate High Power Standards

Phihong will ready its PoE products to support the latest specifications defined by the IEEE802.3at task force....

Power Supply Firm Expands Manufacturing

Phihong Technology has opened a facility in Suzhou, China, which will house up to 50 production lines and employ over 9000 workers....

Controller Enables Complete PSE Channel Per Chip

The LTC4263 from Linear Technology is a single-chip Power over Ethernet solution for a Power Sourcing Equipment controller that is compliant with IEEE 802.3af....

Acquisitions Herald Changes Across Power Electronics Industry

The ongoing trend toward consolidation in the power electronics industry continues unabated as indicated by recent announcements from power semiconductor and power system suppliers. ...

Semiconductor Vendor Enters PoE with Acquisition

Microsemi has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire PowerDsine. With this acquisition, Microsemi expands its portfolio of product offerings to include a broad range of Power over Ethernet solutions and enhances its analog and mixed signal design capabilities. ...

Vendor Supports Motion On High-Power PoE Standard

Phihong USA supported the motion passed at the May 23, 2006 IEEE802.3at committee meeting to set the output voltage for power sourcing equipment to 50 V to 57V. ...

PoE Provider Licenses Its Midspan Patent

PowerDsine, a provider of PoE solutions, has granted Tyco Electronics of Middletown, Pennsylvania a license to use its U.S. Patent Number 6,473,608 in connection with the manufacture and sale of midspan PoE products. ...

New PoE Controller Enables Multiple High Power Ports

PowerDsine has released the PD83000, a new high-power PoE controller for next-generation Ethernet devices. Combined with the 4- or 12-port PD64004A or PD64012G, up to 48 high power ports can be provided from a single system. ...

Off-the-shelf Transformers Meet PoE standard

A series of high efficiency, small footprint, off-the-shelf power transformers from Pulse for powered device side power over Ethernet products meet IEEE standard 802.3af. ...


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