Cisco lifts the lid on female-recruitment drive

At the show Cisco revealed that it had been developing its own proprietary standard for Power over Ethernet, which it calls ePoE, or enhanced power over ethernet (PoE).

PoE lets businesses provide electricity to a range of low-power devices using the LAN, meaning those devices don't have to be attached to the mains.Compared with the standarised version of PoE, ePoE provides an extra three watts of power, which is necessary to support 802.11n access points, Cisco argues.

But ePoE's development is new and ongoing, so Cisco's PoE stand demonstrated the standardised version of the technology in its Catalyst 2960 switch. Powered in the demo were an IP phone, IP CCTV camera and IP-enabled clock. Curiously, Cisco also attached the Aironet 1250 802.11n access point, even though it cannot run effectively using standardised PoE.