In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a thermal modeling module, data from a Power Sourcing Equipment device (PSE) for cables extending from the PSE to Powered Devices (PDs), the cables configured to transmit power and data from the PSE to the PDs, calculating at the thermal modeling module, thermal characteristics for the cables based on the data, and identifying a thermal rise above a specified threshold at one of the cables. The data comprises real-time electrical data for the cables. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.

Power management techniques in distributed communication systems in which the power available at a remote unit (RU) is measured and compared to the power requirements of the RU. Voltage and current are measured for two dummy loads at the RU and these values are used to solve for the output voltage of the power supply and the resistance of the wires. From these values, a maximum power available may be calculated and compared to power requirements of the RU.

A transceiver has a first interface supplied by a first supply voltage to interface with external devices operating in a first supply domain and a second interface supplied by a second supply voltage and adapted to interface to an external communication bus operating in a second supply domain. The transceiver has a first internal communication link, which is adapted to transfer transmit data generated by an external device operating in the first supply domain, from the first interface to the second interface, and a second internal communication link, which is adapted to transfer transmit data be supplied from the external communication bus operating in the second supply domain from the second interface to the first interface.

There are provided methods for associating an adapter controller with a device, among a plurality of devices, for instance a Power over Ethernet device or its controller, each device of the plurality being connected to a controller interconnected to other controllers by a power-over-data linear bus to which an item of power source equipment is also connected. The methods comprises an exchange of a pairing message comprising a unique identifier of the device to be paired with, wherein only said device from which is the pairing message receives power at the time of receiving the pairing message by the controller among the plurality of devices.

A local management-based Power Over Ethernet (PoE) switch and a management system. The PoE switch includes a casing, a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) screen, a monitoring Micro Control Unit (MCU) module, a power system module, a display module, a PoE system module, a switch system module, a key group arranged on the casing, and a key module. The key module transmits information to the MCU module through the display module, and the MCU module connected with the display module, the PoE system module, the switch system module and the key module respectively through a bus performs corresponding operation according to the information. By adoption of the technical solution, working states of the PoE and switch system modules are visually displayed on the screen, and then are correspondingly processed according to the information and displayed on the screen.

The invention relates, inter alia, to a network device (10) which can be connected via electrical lines (15, 16) to other subscribers (18a, 18b, 12, 13) of a network (42), in particular a real-time intercom network (42), for transmitting audio and/or image information, wherein the network device (10) comprises at least one input-side terminal (22a) for connection to a power supply source (11) and at least one output-side terminal (22b) for connection to at least one second network device (12), wherein signals and operating voltage (PoE) can be transmitted via the terminals, using at least the following four layers (32, 33, 34, 35): a) PTP layer (precision time protocol), b) ethernet layer, c) data and/or information layer, d) PoE (power over ethernet) layer.

A system includes a host processor, which has a host memory and is coupled to store data in a non-volatile memory in accordance with a storage protocol. A network interface controller (NIC) receives data packets conveyed over a packet communication network from peer computers containing, in payloads of the data packets, data records that encode data in accordance with the storage protocol for storage in the non-volatile memory. The NIC processes the data records in the data packets that are received in order in each flow from a peer computer and extracts and writes the data to the host memory, and when a data packet arrives out of order, writes the data packet to the host memory without extracting the data and processes the data packets in the flow so as to recover context information for use in processing the data records in subsequent data packets in the flow.

A method of generating a customized secondary power distribution assembly (SPDA) includes generating one or more customizable SPDAs. Each of the one or more customizable SPDAs is a construct corresponding with a microprocessor configured to control a set of customizable channels in each of a set of virtual line replaceable modules (vLRMs). The method also includes creating a mapping between one of the one or more customizable SPDAs and the customized SPDA, the mapping indicating line replaceable modules (LRMs) of the customized SPDA and defining each channel of each LRM, and deploying the customized SPDA in an application. The microprocessor is initiated to control the customized SPDA according to the mapping at startup.

Power over Ethernet system having multiple power source devices comprising a control device that controls power distribution to a plurality of communication ports. In the control device, a master controller provides a power supply to power consumption look-up-table to a plurality of control circuits in various manners via a series bus. When one power source device shuts down, each control circuit can rapidly shut off selected port switches connected thereto.

A method for establishing a powered link over a transmission line includes providing a constant, predetermined current to a terminal thereby causing a power transistor coupled to the terminal to conduct in a subthreshold region of transistor operation without current flowing between a drain terminal of the power transistor and a source terminal of the power transistor. The method includes estimating a size of the power transistor using a digital time signal indicative of an amount of time the constant, predetermined current is provided before a voltage level on the terminal exceeds a predetermined voltage level. In an embodiment, the predetermined voltage level is less than a threshold voltage of the power transistor.