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Re: [LUG] battery powerered hubs

 

Tom Potts wrote:
> On Saturday 09 June 2007 11:23, Simon Waters wrote:
>> Tom Potts wrote:
>>> and whatever happend to PoE?
>> Cost, wide availability of power points, and the advent of wireless.
>
> The only ones I ever saw were 16 port switches for £1k+
> I could never understand how a few milliamps cost £850+ ... it's pretty simple 
> technology!

They got cheaper, but they never achieved volume sales, so not much. I
saw 24 port for a few hundred, but at the time 24port 10/100 switches
without PoE were breaking the 100GBP barrier, so they were still a lot
more. I believe we still figured out we could buy 24 individual PoE
devices and a normal switch, for less than the 24 port switches, which I
guess says everything about volume manufacturing prices.

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