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Title WP-37- The Benefits of PoE for Industrial Applications REV0-1909-5/5 © 2009 by B&B Electronics.

The Benefits of PoE For Industrial Applications - 59059 Making Rugged Reliability A Matter Of Course

PoE is a case of relearning old lessons. There’s much to be admired about a technology that simply works well without problems or questions about its safety for many years. Take the track record of PoE, add the fine tuning of the IEEE and potential for a stable, scalable platform for years to come, and it’s just the thing to make an engineer, plant manager or technician grin from ear to ear. Stability, reliability and inherent ruggedness of the technology are the real reasons for this potential. That’s what makes PoE a likely candidate for full scale adoption in industrial settings. It’s more important than bandwidth. If that’s all there was, PoE would likely remain outside the core of industrial networks for a very long time.

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