PowerDsine Brings PD64012 PoE Manager to Market

PowerDsine (Farmingdale, NY), a leader in Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) solutions, announced availability of the new 12-channel PD64012 PoE Manager, developed jointly with Motorola, on an application-specific integrated circuit. The IEEE 802.3af-compliant chip is based on a combination of PowerDsine's PoE market leadership and Motorola's SMARTMOS8™ technology, integrating power, analog and advanced digital logic functions into one device. Its use in Ethernet switches and midspans - an alternative for power sourcing equipment - will allow next-generation network devices to share power and data over the same cable.

Samples of the PD64012 PoE Manager are immediately available. Production for shipment is expected to commence in the first quarter of 2004. The device is fully IEEE 802.3af-2003 compliant and also works with pre-standard proprietary solutions.