PoE Injectors and distance limitation

[d.mikheyenko]

Greetings,

Do Cisco PoE injectors for 3500 APs and 1552e APs act as a repeater? Another words, can we run 100m cat5e from the network to the injector and then another 100m from injector to the AP?

Thanks in advance!

[Scott Fella]

That should work as long as the ethernet to the AP is within the limit, which includes the patch cable.

Thanks,

Scott

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[d.mikheyenko]

Hi Scott,

I am not sure I understand. The ethernet to the AP traverses the injector, so I could interpret your answer as "Yes, you could dod 100m from the switch to the AP".

My setup is:

Ethernet switch === 100m ==== PoE Injector === 100m ==== AP

Another words my total ethernet run is 200m. This "should" work IF the PoE injector regenerates the signal, like a repeater. This is the piece that I do not know.

Thanks!

[Scott Fella]

Power Injectors typically do that.  Typically what I see is fiber being ran out to the AP and then a converter to ethernet to the power injector is used.

Thanks,

Scott

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[Abha Jha]

It should work but there will be a power loss in the cable and not sure if the required power reaches to the AP to power ON its radio...

[aqjaved]

The injector just needs to deliver voltage (not a signal), like any wire, so distance shouldn't really be a problem.