Supported powered devices
Brocade PoE devices support a wide range of IP powered devices, including the following:
• Voice over IP (VoIP) phones
• Wireless LAN access points
• IP surveillance cameras
The following sections briefly describe these IP powered devices.
VoIP
Voice over IP (VoIP) is the convergence of traditional telephony networks with data networks. VoIP
uses the existing data network infrastructure as the transport system for both services. Voice is
traditionally transported on a network that uses circuit-switching technology, but data networks are
built on packet-switching technology. To achieve this convergence, technology has been developed to
take a voice signal, which originates as an analog signal, and transport it within a digital medium. This
is done by devices such as VoIP telephones that receive the originating tones and place them in UDP
packets. The size and frequency of these UDP packets depends on the coding / decoding (CODEC)
technology that has been implemented in the VoIP telephone or device. The VoIP control packets use
TCP/IP format.
IP surveillance cameras
IP surveillance technology provides digital streaming of video over Ethernet, providing real-time,
remote access to video feeds from cameras.
The main benefit of using IP surveillance cameras on the network is that you can view surveillance
images from any computer on the network. If you have access to the Internet, you can securely
connect from anywhere in the world to view a chosen facility or even a single camera from your
surveillance system. By using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or the company intranet, you can
manage password-protected access to images from the surveillance system. Similar to secure
payment over the Internet, images and information are kept secure and can be viewed only by
approved personnel.
Installing PoE firmware
This section lists the PoE firmware file types supported and the procedure to install them on the FSX,
FCX, and ICX devices.
Firmware image file types
The following table lists PoE firmware files. The firmware files are specific to each device and cannot
be used in any other device.
PoE Firmware files
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Product
PoE Firmware
FSX Gen 1 & 2 modules
fsx_poe_06.0.6.fw
FSX Gen 3 modules
fsx_poeplus_02.1.0.fw
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