SLVSF21D August 2019 – August 2020 TPS23882
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Upon release of the new IEEE 802.3bt standard, the IEEE introduced two new "Types" of PoE equipment. The addition of Type-3 and Type-4 equipment are most commonly associated with the addition of 4-Pair PoE and their available power increases of to up to 90 W sourced from a PSE port. However, the new PoE 2 Type-3 designation also applies to new 2-Pair PoE equipment as well. Most notably, the new 802.3bt standard supports a reduced TMPS time (6 ms vs. 60 ms) and a new feature called Autoclass, and by definition any device that supports these new features is designated as Type-3 equipment even if power is only provided over 2-pairs (one alternative pairset) in an ethernet cable. Since the TPS23882 supports these new features including its use of the 100ms long first class finger to identify itself as an IEEE 802.3bt PSE, it is officially classified as a Type-3 PSE even through power delivery is limited to 2-pair.
Please note that as the 802.3at standard created "type-2" equipment that was fully interoperable with the previous PoE 1 Type-1 (802.3af) equipment, any new 802.3bt Type-3 equipment including the TPS23882 is fully operable with any existing PoE 1 Type-1 (.af) and Type-2 (.at) equipment.