NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

Mon Aug 15 03:09:50 UTC 2011

> Of course, if he had local AC power available, it would kinda defeat one of
> the points of having PoE, which is to be able to put switches where there
> isn't a convenient AC drop to begin with.

But wait, there is more...

Maybe you want your POE devices (like phones) to stay alive during a power failure, without having to put UPS's everywhere.

And anything else that is POE (cameras, thermostats, etc)