Power over Ethernet

sprague — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:01:00 GMT

We mentioned a few months back that Syspine phones will support Power Over Ethernet (POE), which is very nice if you'd like to eliminate wires going into your desk phone. POE-enabled phones just have a single line going into them (the RJ45 ethernet plug). No power required.

I've heard from several Response Point customers who were hoping to get this to work, so we hope the following instructions will help. Here's how one of our testers, Chad Oftedal, describes how he got everything to work:

First, I went to Fry’s (a local electronics supply store) and bought the DLink DES-1008PA ($139.99) and the Netgear ProSafe FS108P ($149.99). Both are 8 port switches with 4 of the ports PoE enabled.

We have just tested and confirmed that the Quanta system does indeed work just fine with the DLink PoE switch on the RTM SW.

Here’s the setup:

DLink DI-804 router
DLink DES-1008PA switch
Syspine YK1 base unit
Syspine 310 phone
Desktop PC

Connect the router to the switch (I used port 4 out on the router, into port 7 on the switch. Note that ports 5-8 on the switch are the non-PoE ports.
Connect desktop PC and YK1 to ports 5 and 6 on the switch (again, the non-PoE ports).
Connect the Syspine 310 phone to a PoE port (I used #2) on the switch, and I used a standard Cat-5 cable.
Add a phone line to the base unit
Power everything up
From the PC, add the phone and user. RP had no trouble finding and provisioning the phone.
From an outside phone line, call the phone line that was added to the BU.
Call went through just fine, the phone rang as normal - everything worked great.

Not sure which specific POE switch you’ve got, but you may want to try it yourself if you have the above equipment. It’s pretty nice to go POE and not have to deal with those nasty bulky AC adapters everywhere.

Power over Ethernet: You asked. We listened.

Jeffsmi — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:00:13 GMT

Good news! Quanta's phones will now support power over Ethernet. We heard this request repeatedly from Microsoft channel partners, and are thrilled that Quanta was able to address the need so quickly. Of course customers will still need a switch that supports PoE to take advantage of this, but business that have one can do away with phone power cords.

Response Point Team Blog : PoE

Power over Ethernet

Power over Ethernet: You asked. We listened.