GE CP2000AC54TEP and CP2725AC54TEP PoE rectifiers

The CP2000AC54TEP and CP2725AC54TEP PoE rectifiers from GE provide 40 and 50 A of 48 V power, respectively. These rectifiers are created for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for use in the design of enterprise-class switches and routers.

Complying with IEEE’s (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 802.3 standard for 2250 V isolation, these power supplies are used in enterprise devices that are often required to run PoE+ smart building systems, such as badge scanners, 802.11n wireless access points, laptops, radio-frequency identification devices, pan-tilt-zoom security cameras, video phones and point-of-sale terminals.

GE’s PoE rectifier compliance with the PoE+ standard enables OEMs to provide more than 25 W of power per ethernet port from the data centre switchgear, nearly doubling the amount of power delivered via the standard PoE port. In addition, the increased power delivery expands the current PoE functionality to a host of new applications and devices, while operating at more than 96% power efficiency.

The new solutions are easily integrated into switch architectures that support multiple redundant rectifiers on a common DC bus in various redundancy schemes including N+1 or N+N arrangements. In addition, flexible communication interfaces enable the switch designer to choose the most effective way to communicate with the power supplies.