Abstract: This application discloses an energy-saving power sourcing method. Power sourcing equipment receives an input voltage of a powered device fed back by the powered device, and adjusts, based on the input voltage, a power sourcing voltage that is output to the powered device, so that the input voltage of the powered device is a maximum voltage, thereby reducing a link loss and saving electric power resources of the power sourcing equipment.

Abstract: Power sourcing equipment (PSE) and an energy saving method for Power over Ethernet are provided. The PSE includes: a low-power detection component, configured to: detect a power supply port when being connected to the power supply port; and send a first instruction when the power supply port is connected to a valid powered device PD, to instruct a control switch to connect a PSE chip and the power supply port and disconnect the low-power detection component from the power supply port, and instruct a power switch to connect the PSE chip and a power supply; the control switch, configured to: according to the first instruction, connect the PSE chip and the power supply port, and disconnect the low-power detection component from the power supply port; and the power switch, configured to connect the PSE chip to the power supply port according to the first instruction.

Abstract: This disclosure discloses a power supply method and a power supply device, and pertains to the field of power supply technologies. The method includes: supplying, by a power supply device, power to a load through a power supply port, where the power supply port is connected to a power receiving port of the load by using a power supply cable; and communicating, by the power supply device, with the load through a communications port, to manage a behavior of obtaining power by the load from the power supply device, where the communications port is connected to a communications port of the load by using a communications cable. In this disclosure, the power supply device is a power supply of the load and a controller of the load.

Abstract: A power supply management method performed by power sourcing equipment, includes receiving a power-on request from a level-1 powered device, where the power-on request includes a port identifier of a level-2 power supply port that is detected to be valid in the level-1 powered device, determining, based on the power-on request and an outputtable power of the power sourcing equipment, a level-2 power supply port that is allowed to be powered on in the level-1 powered device, and sending a power-on instruction to the level-1 powered device, where the power-on instruction includes a port identifier of the level-2 power supply port that is allowed to be powered on in the level-1 powered device. The power sourcing equipment uses the level-1 powered device and a level-2 powered device connected to the level-1 powered device as a whole, and centrally performs power supply control and power management.

Abstract: Power sourcing equipment for power over Ethernet (PoE) includes a power supply control circuit, an Ethernet port, and a surge protection circuit. The surge protection circuit includes a first circuit, a second circuit, and a common discharge circuit. The first circuit is connected to a power supply pin group of the Ethernet port, the power supply control circuit, and the common discharge circuit. The second circuit is connected to a non-power supply pin group of the Ethernet port and the common discharge circuit. The first circuit transmits, to the common discharge circuit, a first surge that is input from the power supply pin group. The second circuit transmits, to the common discharge circuit, a second surge that is input from the non-power supply pin group. The common discharge circuit discharges the first surge and the second surge to ground.

Abstract: A power sourcing equipment (PSE) chip, and a Power over Ethernet (PoE) device and method are provided, which can determine a status that a peer end is connected to a powered device (PD) when four cable pairs are used to supply power. The PSE chip includes a channel controller, a first channel detector, and a second channel detector. The channel controller sends detection voltages along a first and a second groups of cable pairs in an Ethernet twisted pair; determines a first impedance and a second impedance according to the detection voltages and corresponding currents that are detected; and determines that a first group or a second group of cable pairs is connected to a valid PD according to the impedances and a preset range.

Abstract: A network device includes a power system, a processor, a power sourcing equipment PSE chip coupled to a first forward power supply port, and a first powered device PD chip coupled to a first reverse power receiving port. A first powered device is connected to the first forward power supply port and the first reverse power receiving port. When detecting that a power failure occurs on the network device, the processor instructs the first PD chip to draw power from the first powered device; the first PD chip draws the power from the first powered device through the first reverse power receiving port, and supplies the obtained power to the power system. Therefore, when a power failure occurs, the network device can continue to obtain power and work properly when the power failure occurs.

Abstract: A power over Ethernet method includes: performing, by power sourcing equipment, a plurality of detections by using an Ethernet port, connected to an intermediate device, of the power sourcing equipment, where a quantity of detections performed by the power sourcing equipment is equal to a quantity of power supply ports of the intermediate device; and if at least one detection result of the plurality of detections is effective, sending, by the power sourcing equipment, a power supply indication to the intermediate device, and supplying power to the connection port. In this way, the power sourcing equipment can supply power across the intermediate device to a powered device connected to the intermediate device, and a power loss caused by voltage conversion is avoided.

Abstract: A port adaptation method applied to a network device including a port adaptation apparatus includes probing whether the first port and the second port are connected to power sourcing equipment, and maintaining or changing one of the first port and the second port that is connected to power sourcing equipment as, or to, a powered state, and a state of the other port as, or to, a powering state.

Abstract: A network device probes whether a first port of the network device is coupled to power sourcing equipment, and when probing that the first port is coupled to power sourcing equipment, maintain or change the first port to a powered state, and lock the first port as a power drawing port, or when probing that the first port is decoupled to power sourcing equipment, and the network device has a power supply for supplying power, change the first port to a powering state. In this way, the first port may adaptively serve as a power drawing port or a power sourcing port according to a coupled device such that manually distinguished a port during device interconnection is not necessary and a coupling error rate is reduced.

Abstract: A power over Ethernet (PoE) power supplying method where power sourcing equipment (PSE) and a powered device exchange link layer discovery protocol data units (LLDPDUs). Each of the LLDPDUs includes two power values. Each of the power values indicates requested or allocated power for one of two sets of cable pairs of the Ethernet twisted pair connecting the PSE and the powered device. Accordingly, the supplied powers to the powered device at sets of cable pairs are independent from each other.

Abstract: A power over Ethernet method where power sourcing equipment (PSE) detects and determines that a first set of cable pairs and a second set of cable pairs of an Ethernet twisted pair are connected to a valid powered device (PD), the PSE receives a link layer discovery protocol data unit (LLDPDU) from the PD, where the LLDPDU includes a load quantity type-length-value (TLV) used to notify a quantity of PD loads included in the PD, and when the PD receives power from both the first set of cable pairs and the second set of cable pairs, and the PD includes two PD interfaces, and the PD includes two PD loads, the PSE supplies power to the PD at a first power using the first set of cable pairs, and supplies power to the PD at a second power using the second set of cable pairs.

Abstract: A power sourcing equipment (PSE) chip, and a Power over Ethernet (PoE) device and method are provided, which can determine a status that a peer end is connected to a powered device (PD) when four cable pairs are used to supply power. The PSE chip includes a channel controller, a first channel detector, and a second channel detector. The channel controller sends detection voltages along a first and a second groups of cable pairs in an Ethernet twisted pair; determines a first impedance and a second impedance according to the detection voltages and corresponding currents that are detected; and determines that a first group or a second group of cable pairs is connected to a valid PD according to the impedances and a preset range.

Abstract: A power over Ethernet method where power sourcing equipment (PSE) detects and determines that a first set of cable pairs and a second set of cable pairs of an Ethernet twisted pair are connected to a valid powered device (PD), the PSE receives a link layer discovery protocol data unit (LLDPDU) from the PD, where the LLDPDU includes a load quantity type-length-value (TLV) used to notify a quantity of PD loads included in the PD, and when the PD receives power from both the first set of cable pairs and the second set of cable pairs, and the PD includes two PD interfaces, and the PD includes two PD loads, the PSE supplies power to the PD at a first power using the first set of cable pairs, and supplies power to the PD at a second power using the second set of cable pairs.

Abstract: A power sourcing equipment (PSE) chip controls a powering channel of the PSE chip according to a value stored in a first register; the PSE chip changes, in response to a second instruction, the value stored in the first register into a calculated value, where the second instruction includes a second slave address and a second data byte, the second slave address is a virtual address of a virtual powering group, and the calculated value is a result obtained by calculation according to the second data byte and a channel indication value that is of the virtual powering group and stored in the PSE chip. Information indicating whether a powering channel is added to a virtual powering group is stored in a PSE chip, so that powering channels added to a virtual powering group can be controlled at a time.

Abstract: A power sourcing equipment (PSE) chip controls a powering channel of the PSE chip according to a value stored in a first register; the PSE chip changes, in response to a second instruction, the value stored in the first register into a calculated value, where the second instruction includes a second slave address and a second data byte, the second slave address is a virtual address of a virtual powering group, and the calculated value is a result obtained by calculation according to the second data byte and a channel indication value that is of the virtual powering group and stored in the PSE chip. Information indicating whether a powering channel is added to a virtual powering group is stored in a PSE chip, so that powering channels added to a virtual powering group can be controlled at a time.