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IP Telephony Drives in Power over Ethernet

Posted by timothy on from the but-it's-not-wireless dept.

GuitarNeophyte writes "The Channel Register states that although the idea for Power Over Ethernet has been around for a long time, the stage may finally be set for it to become an essential factor in our technical lives. One of the main reasons is because of the emergence of ip telephony. 'Telephones need to work in an emergency including when there is a power failure. Traditional telephones do, but IP phones will only do so if there is an uninterrupted power supply (UPS). The only practical way of guaranteeing power supply to a large number of IP phones is PoE.' Will IP telephones bring in PoE?"

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  1. No 911? Quote the VOIP reseller... by TimTheFoolMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...nevermore... nevermore....

    Tim

  2. Ethernet over Power? by GreatRedShark · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apparently, my cousin has Ethernet over Power, that was installed by The Internet Service Guy...

    It would be interesting to see what happens if you ran Ethernet over Power on a system powered by Power over Ethernet... who would win? an epic battle, to be sure! ...or maybe they would cancel each other out, and you'd just get regular ethernet? ...or maybe it would be like a divide-by-zero, and your NIC would explode? :P

    1. Re:Ethernet over Power? by Ray+Radlein · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you could somehow combine the two, you might, at long last, realize the ancient dream of Power-over-Powerlines! Then we can return to tackling the thorny problem of delivering Ether via Ethernet.