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Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 February 2006
Steady growth for power over Ethernet
Three years since its introduction, power over Ethernet (PoE) technologies have maintained steady growth in the marketplace.
Three years since its introduction, power over Ethernet (PoE) technologies have maintained steady growth in the marketplace The ever-growing penetration for PoE in Ethernet switches is allowing enterprises and small businesses to easily deploy more and more installations, including applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Dec 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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VDC's recently published report, "PoE: global market opportunity analysis", estimates that the PoE switch market will grow at a 4-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32%.
Similarly, applications for telephony, WLAN, security etc are predicted to witness a 36% 4-year CAGR.
Today, various implementations for inline power exist.
While some vendors offer both proprietary and standards-based solutions, the underlying concepts for each of the technologies generally stays the same.
To better understand how legacy implementations for power over Ethernet have withstood, VDC probed users and vendors to analyse today's market and industry preferences.
Currently most PoE products comply with the 802.3af specification.
Approximately 6% of respondents indicated that their products did not, whereas 11% did not know.
55% of PoE users noted that standards compliance was not a major concern, contradicting the strong vendor and OEM beliefs for incorporating standards based solutions.
Nevertheless, the varying opinions were most likely a result of unique market perspectives.
PoE vendors and OEMs rely heavily on standards compliance so that customers can be more flexible and incorporate multivendor solutions into their architectures, while end users are more interested in implementing a working solution rather than learning on how that solution works at the core.
The enterprise communities suggested a stronger awareness for compliance than did the industrial ones.
Enterprises are more likely to incorporate an assortment of PoE flavours into their solutions, whereas industrial environments typically use silo architectures that encompass a one-to-one relationship between the vendor and their solution.
"PoE is still a growing technology that appears to be satisfying both the technical expectations set by end users and growth expectations set by the industry", says Spyros Photopoulos, Analyst from VDC's Telecom Practice.
"Adoption for PoE will only increase as the new higher-powered PoE Plus standard proposes to enable a broader range of supported applications".
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