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Christian – apologies - please excuse autocorrect mistakes with your name. (very beat
red face on my part) George Zimmerman Principal, CME Consulting Experts in Advanced
PHYsical Communications Technology george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 310-920-3860 (PLEASE NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS.
THE OTHER WILL STILL WORK, BUT PLEASE USE THIS FOR CME BUSINESS) From: George
Zimmerman [mailto:george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Christina - I would confirm what Keng-hua reports, that I know of many PHYs with the crossover correction, on both sets of pairs independently.
I agree that this feature in the PHYs works data-only, and will not effect powering.
However, because of this feature, we therefore do not see any trouble calls from mis-connected crossover cabling.
Therefore we do not seem to have a good way to see whether the two sets of pairs are crossed over independently in the field. One reason that the feature is popular is that the equipment vendor no longer has to worry about the configuration of the wiring (with regards to crossovers).
Specifying a specific configuration for 4-pair POE applications seems to be a step backwards, and would lead us back to the days when the end-user would have to have multiple sets of patch cords handy when connecting a new link so that he could make
sure he had the right crossover combination at the end point.
Remember that there are several connections in the link topology where a crossover may or may not occur (either by mistake or by design). -george George Zimmerman Principal, CME Consulting Experts in Advanced PHYsical Communications Technology george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 310-920-3860 (PLEASE NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS.
THE OTHER WILL STILL WORK, BUT PLEASE USE THIS FOR CME BUSINESS) From:
Christian BEIA [mailto:christian.beia@xxxxxx]
Thanks Goran, Kenghua, So, if we agree that Auto MDI-X is a data-only feature, and the PoE voltage will not be affected by this feature, I would propose not to mention Auto-MDI-X when
talking about PoE since it creates confusion. The only reason to mention auto MDI-X is to say that this feature makes crossover cables not needed anymore. And I know it is very widely-adopted feature. For a brand new installation, for high power PoE application, we are specifying cabling performance anyway (cable category, bundle size etc..). So, it seems to me that specifying to use straight cable would be fair as well. It would add no cost, and it would make lose no feature. I’m not trying to get rid of active bridge in application where plug&play and backward compatibility are requested and appreciated feature! I would like to specify a single voltage polarity at new 4PPOE PSE output, so that the new 4PPOE PD would not need diode bridges for high power application (e.g.
> 51W) Doing so, there will be no need for designing PSEs with voltage auto-selection as Goran is proposing.
I think this would add extra-cost and complexity to the PSE, and also could impact system efficiency since extra-switches are needed. Best regards Christian From: Chuang, Keng Hua (HP Networking) [mailto:kenghua.chuang@xxxxxx]
Hi, It is data-only feature. The transceiver will cross the data path internally but the physical connection of the power delivery path remain the same. kenghua From: Hauer, Goran (Goran) [mailto:ghauer@xxxxxxxxx]
Hi Christian, all, I would assume that it is a data feature only. However, it would be really nice to remove those rectifying bridges from the PD, to both increase efficiency and reduce cost and complexity in the PD. I have taken a look at what could be done at the PSE side. If you could consider that a 4-pair powered device (PD) would accept power a bit differently from the old PoE standard, by instead powering the pairs 3,6 and
4,5 with the negative voltage and the pairs 1,2 and 7,8 with the positive voltage, the polarity at the PD side wouldn't change regardless of straight cable,
"Val's Crossover Cord" or "Goran's Crossover cord". The PSE would then need to be able to swap polarity between two of the pairs (for instance between pairs 4,5 and 7,8) to maintain compatibility with the old PoE
standards. When typing this down, I came to think about that it could maybe be solved even more elegantly by supplying
the pair 4,5 with the negative voltage and the pairs 1,2 and 7,8 with the positive voltage regardless, and after identification of the PD type, the PSE would either power the pair 3,6 with positive voltage for an old (2-wire) PoE PD or with negative voltage
for a 4-wire PoE PD. The 4-wire PD would then need to be able to connect the pairs 3,6 and 4,5 together in the powered state. It would also need to be able to rectify the voltage on the pairs 3,6 and 4,5 during detection and negotiation (classification). This
reduces the total number of needed transistors at the PSE and PD but adds a rectifier (that only need to support detection and negotiation currents) and a switch (transistor) to the PD. This PSE solution would also only support 2-wire powered PoE PD that accepts
power on the data pairs. There should be other possible solutions to be able to get rid of those rectifying bridges, I would be happy to see some more brainstorming about this. Best regards, /Goran Från:
Christian BEIA [mailto:christian.beia@xxxxxx]
Thanks Peter, all, Let’s consider a PSE switch where those transceivers with Auto-MDI feature are present. Would it automatically adapt the port voltage polarity as well? Or is it a data-only feature? Thanks,
best regards, Christian From: Peter Johnson [mailto:peter_johnson@xxxxxxxxx]
All, It might be telling that there are 10/100/1000 PHY transceivers that automatically adapt to crossover (Auto-MDI) with
BOTH the "data" pairs (1,2/3,6) and the "spare" pairs (4,5/7,8) independently. Regards, Pete Johnson Sifos
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