Summary

Standards continue to evolve to address new or enhanced features on end devices. New wireless standards address a larger density of clients and the need to provide better connectivity and more bandwidth. Along with these needs comes the need to increase the power used by network devices, continuing the need for PoE standards to evolve and support current and future power demands.

Standards take longer to get ratified while the market needs to march at a faster pace. In response, industry leaders defined advanced PoE specifications such as PoH (HDBaseT), UPOE (Cisco), and Ruckus proprietary implementations such as PoE+ Overdrive.

To great advantage, Ruckus Networks wired and wireless products support all PoE standards, industry specifications, and proprietary implementations to address the power needs of leading-edge Ruckus wireless access points today.

The power negotiation is transparent to the user. When an access point requires more power, it simply requests the power by way of LLDP from the switch and the switch provides the appropriate amount of power over standard Gigabit Ethernet or Multi-Gigabit Ethernet ports, either 2-Pair or 4-Pair, up to 95W.

Managing the PoE power budget is critical to any switch; consequently, interoperability between the Ruckus ICX switch and the AP is critical to the utmost. For best PoE power management, Ruckus ICX switches provide the most effective PoE offerings in the industry, along with all of the networking technology expected in an intelligent switch.

And Ruckus access points work at their best when connected to a Ruckus ICX switch.