What's the correct max power requirement for H320's?

[shane_hartigan]

Hi,

Information on the H320 dataheet have it that the H320 have a max power of 6W as seen here.

I think this contradicts the max power specified in the best practice document pg. 47 which have it as 15W.

I need to confirm this because we currently have 48 H320's connected to an ICX 7150-48P with the POW allocation for each port set to 7.5W which is fine if it's max is 6W, however, this is not a good idea if the max is 15W as the switch will best handle only 24 H320's considering it's POE budget.

Thank you.

[Squozen]

The design document shows the maximum that can be requested by the device. It's up to you whether you build out your environment to the theoretical maximum or the real-world numbers you've seen. Personally I wouldn't be comfortable with pushing a POE switch to its limit so I would design as if the AP actually used 15W.

If for no other reason, having 48 APs on a switch causes a pretty nasty outage if that switch dies. Better to split them across two switches - IMO.

[syamantakomer]

This response may be late but I want to provide correct information.

H320 needs 802.3af power over POE and power requirements are well listed in the datasheet.

https://webresources.ruckuswireless.com/datasheets/h320/ds-ruckus-h320.html 

[Adesiyan]

Good day Syamantak, I connected a H320 AP to a cisco WS-C2960X-24PD-L switch, the AP did not come up. What do you think can be the problem