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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2015
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Krishna Vavilala, Bangalore, IN;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
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.