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POE will not work over fibre, as glass is non-conductive you need copper. Fibre only transmits light energy not electrical energy
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POE will not work over fibre, as glass is non-conductive you need copper. Fibre only transmits light energy not electrical energy

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we are expanding our office and the far reaches will not be reachable with copper. I plan to run a fiber line and setup a POE switch at the other end. Our office side has a VLAN for data and VLAN for phone. My question is once I media convert to fiber and back again do I need to program the POE switch at the other end to match the ones in the office?
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we are expanding our office and the far reaches will not be reachable with copper. I plan to run a fiber line and setup a POE switch at the other end. Our office side has a VLAN for data and VLAN for phone. My question is once I media convert to fiber and back again do I need to program the POE switch at the other end to match the ones in the office?

Network act funny after adding a switch

A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.

Switches / Hubs

Networking is the process of connecting computing devices, peripherals and terminals together through a system that uses wiring, cabling or radio waves that enable their users to communicate, share information and interact over distances. Often associated are issues regarding operating systems, hardware and equipment, cloud and virtual networking, protocols, architecture, storage and management.