公开(公告)号：US10666049B2

公开(公告)日：2020-05-26

申请号：US14771508

申请日：2015-07-23

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Krishna Vavilala

IPC: H02J3/06 ,  G06F1/26 ,  H04L12/10

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method, system, and apparatus including a Power Source Equipment (PSE) device configured to provide Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) to a Powered Device (PD) that is configured to receive a request from the PD requesting a quantity of PoE power, the quantity of PoE power including an amount of power to be provided by the PSE as power for redundancy, receiving a message from the PD, the message including a unique identifier, allocating a requested quantity of PoE power, the allocating of the requested quantity of PoE power including allocating to provide the requested quantity of PoE power from one of a plurality of PSEs, and providing the requested quantity of PoE power to the PD. Related methods, systems, and apparatuses are described.