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POE switches and lightning
From: Caleb Tennis <caleb.tennis () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:36:35 -0400
We had a lightning strike nearby yesterday that looks to have come inside our facility via a feeder circuit that goes outdoors underground to our facility's gate. What's interesting is that various POE switches throughout the entire building seemed to be affected in that some of their ports they just shut down/off. Rebooting these switches brought everything back to life. It didn't impact anything non-POE, and even then, only impacted some devices. But it was spread across the whole building, across multiple switches. I was just curious if anyone had seen anything similar to this before? Our incoming electrical power has surge suppression, and the power to the switches is all through double conversion UPS, so I'm not quite sure why any of them would have been impacted at all. I'm guessing that the strike had some impact on the electrical ground, but I don't know what we can do to prevent future strikes from causing the same issues. Thoughts?
Current thread:
- POE switches and lightning Caleb Tennis (May 13)
- RE: POE switches and lightning Matlock, Kenneth L (May 13)
- Re: POE switches and lightning Larry Sheldon (May 13)
- Re: POE switches and lightning Pete Carah (May 13)
- Re: POE switches and lightning Daniel Senie (May 13)
- Re: POE switches and lightning Steven Bellovin (May 13)
- Re: POE switches and lightning Pete Carah (May 13)
- Re: POE switches and lightning Pete Carah (May 13)
- Re: POE switches and lightning Marshall Eubanks (May 14)
- Re: POE switches and lightning Ingo Flaschberger (May 14)
- Re: POE switches and lightning Seth Mattinen (May 14)