topic Re: Compability Cisco Power Injectors and Ruckus AP ́s (r500, r600, H500) in Access Points - Indoor and Outdoor

Compability Cisco Power Injectors and Ruckus AP ́s (r500, r600, H500)

golbert_salazar — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:41:25 GMT

I have a cliente that has 8 Cisco power injector air-pwrinj5= and needs to use this with some ruckus ap ́s for example r500, r600....so are they compatible????

I saw this pair (cisco power + ruckus ap) work!! but i ́m not sure about the advantages and disadvantages.....i will appreciate your opinion.

is there ruckus poe specification guide updated?????

Thanks guys for your help
Golbert

Re: Compability Cisco Power Injectors and Ruckus AP ́s (r500, r600, H500)

chang_chang — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:50:21 GMT

Hi Golbert,
As long as the PoE adaptor support 802.3af, it is fine work with Ruckus R500
Thanks

Re: Compability Cisco Power Injectors and Ruckus AP ́s (r500, r600, H500)

seanmuir — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:04:22 GMT

As stated above as long as they are either 802.3af or 802.3at:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/power/quick/guide/pwrinj5.html

See page 65 of the following for Ruckus confirmation:

https://ruckus-support.s3.amazonaws.com/private/documents/551/zf-in-ap-9-8-ug-800-70601-001-revC-201...

Re: Compability Cisco Power Injectors and Ruckus AP ́s (r500, r600, H500)

john_d — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:10:16 GMT

Yeah, any standard 802.3af PoE injector will work with your R500/R600/R700. I've used numerous injectors with different brands, including the cheap ones off Amazon, and they've all powered Ruckus AP's without a hitch.

The only gotcha is that if you have a Ruckus R710 and need 802.3at PoE+ mode, some vendors misleadingly sell "PoE+ injectors". Ruckus AP's won't detect those as PoE+. But, obviously, there's very very little that you're missing with the R710 if you use PoE compatibility mode and I wouldn't worry about it.

Re: Compability Cisco Power Injectors and Ruckus AP ́s (r500, r600, H500)

golbert_salazar — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:27:30 GMT

Hi Sean,
Thanks for the answer!!, but i can ́t see the link about page 65...it shows an error: This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it.

Can you resend it to me again pls???

Thanks!

Re: Compability Cisco Power Injectors and Ruckus AP ́s (r500, r600, H500)

golbert_salazar — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:54:32 GMT

Thanks Chang!!

Re: Compability Cisco Power Injectors and Ruckus AP ́s (r500, r600, H500)

golbert_salazar — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:55:51 GMT

Excellent!! thanks for your help!! i have more clear the concept!!

Re: Compability Cisco Power Injectors and Ruckus AP ́s (r500, r600, H500)

seanmuir — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:04:33 GMT

Try either of these links and look at page 59:

https://support.ruckuswireless.com/documents/763-indoor-access-point-100-2-0-user-guide

https://ruckus-support.s3.amazonaws.com/private/documents/763/rw-in-ap-100-2-0-ug-800-70892-001-revB...

Re: Compability Cisco Power Injectors and Ruckus AP ́s (r500, r600, H500)

michael_brado — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:06:28 GMT

Cisco AIR-PWRINJ5 provides 802.11af (15.4W) power.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/power/quick/guide/pwrinj5.html

R600 AP power draw:

Idle: 2.3W

Typical: 5.3W

Peak: 12W

Click Specs from this R600 Indoor AP product page: http://www.ruckuswireless.com/products/access-points/zoneflex-indoor/zoneflex-r600

Re: Compability Cisco Power Injectors and Ruckus AP ́s (r500, r600, H500)

seanmuir — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 22:12:14 GMT

Hey Mike,

The specs tab does not mention 802.3at but on the manuals it does.

Re: Compability Cisco Power Injectors and Ruckus AP ́s (r500, r600, H500)

eizens_putnins — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 08:33:17 GMT

Hi,

For AIR-PWRINJ5 -- yes, it must work, as it is gigabit PoE injector. It can provide 15W power as in 802.3af, which is enough for all indoor Ruckus AP..

But it is actually not that easy in many other cases. And problem has nothing to do with power budget.

Situation is very different if injectors are 100MB/s injectors (as they often are -- you are normally replacing old APs), and switch has 1GB/s port, it will not work properly. It will work only with 100MB/s switch ports, but than you still may have problem with 100mb/s setting of R500 APs ports. It is common culprit with PoE injectors. Typical symptoms -- AP has massive packet loss in such setup and periodically reboots with message in the log "kernel panic".

By the way, be aware that Speedflex can't be used to check connectivity of APs connected to 100MB/s ports, as it has bug preventing it to measure link performance properly in such setup. This bug have to be fixed in 9.12.2 release.