Power allotment adjustment in a power sourcing equipment (PSE) of a power over ethernet system based on event detection at another PSE
View Patent ↗A Power-over-Ethernet (POE) powered device (PD) may be coupled to two power sourcing equipments (PSEs), a PSE and an additional PSE. The PSE may exchange a transport layer protocol communications with the additional PSE. The communications comprising a first communication from the PSE to the additional PSE indicative of a PoE configuration of the PSE and a second communication from the additional PSE to the PSE indicative of a PoE configuration of the additional PSE. The PSE may create a power availability table based on the communications. The PSE may detect occurrence of an event comprising at least one of a change in the power availability table or a change in ability of the PSE to provide power to the PD. On occurrence of the event, the PSE may send additional communications to the additional PSE, requesting to adjust its power allotment for the PD.
1. A Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) comprising:
a first port connectable via a first communications link to a powered device (PD) to supply Power over Ethernet (POE) to and exchange communications with the PD;
a second port connectable via a second communications link to an additional PSE; and
a control circuitry configured to, in a state of the PD being connected to the first port and the additional PSE being connected to the second port:
exchange a first set of transport layer protocol communications with the additional PSE, the additional PSE being connected to the PD to provide PoE to the PD, the first set of transport layer protocol communications comprising:
a first communication from the PSE to the additional PSE comprising a first PoE configuration field indicative of a PoE configuration of the PSE; and
a second communication from the additional PSE to the PSE comprising a second PoE configuration field indicative of a PoE configuration of the additional PSE;
create a power availability table for the PD based on information from the first PoE configuration field and the second PoE configuration field, wherein the power availability table is indicative of availability of PoE for the PD from the PSE and the additional PSE;
detect occurrence of an event comprising at least one of a change in the power availability table or a change in ability of the PSE to provide power to the PD; and
send, based at least in part on occurrence of the event, a second set of transport layer protocol communications to the additional PSE, the second set of transport layer protocol communications comprising a request to the additional PSE to adjust a power allotment of the additional PSE for the PD.
2. The PSE of claim 1 , wherein to exchange the first set of transport layer protocol communications with the additional PSE, the control circuitry is configured to:
send the first communication to a management Internet Protocol (IP) address of the additional PSE; and
receive the second communication from the management IP address of the additional PSE.
3. The PSE of claim 1 , wherein the PoE configuration of the PSE comprises PoE capabilities of the PSE.
4. The PSE of claim 3 , wherein PoE capabilities of the PSE comprise at least one of a power budget of the PSE, a firmware version of the PSE, or a configuration of power supply units (PSUs) of the PSE.
5. The PSE of claim 1 , wherein the PoE configuration of the PSE comprises a configuration of PoE capable ports of the PSE.
6. The PSE of claim 5 , wherein the configuration of PoE capable ports of the PSE comprises at least one of: a number of PoE capable ports, respective power allocations of the PoE capable ports, respective power consumption amounts of the PoE capable ports, respective port priorities of the PoE capable ports, or respective statuses of the PoE capable ports.
7. The PSE of claim 1 , wherein the change in ability of the PSE to provide power to the PD comprises a reduction in a number of power supply units (PSUs) connected to the PSE.
8. The PSE of claim 7 , wherein the second set of transport layer protocol communications comprise a control communication to the additional PSE indicating the additional PSE to increase the power allotment of the additional PSE for the PD, in response to the reduction in the number of PSUs connected to the PSE.
9. The PSE of claim 1 , wherein the change in ability of the PSE to provide power to the PD comprises a reduction in PoE power availability at the PSE.
10. The PSE of claim 9 , wherein the second set of transport layer protocol communications comprise a control communication to the additional PSE indicating the additional PSE to increase the power allotment of the additional PSE for the PD, in response to the reduction in PoE power availability at the PSE.
11. The PSE of claim 1 , wherein the change in the power availability table comprises a reduction in PoE port priority of a PoE capable port of the PSE connected to the PD.
12. The PSE of claim 11 , wherein to send the second set of transport layer protocol communications, the control circuitry is configured to:
check, based on the power availability table, whether a port of the additional PSE connected to the PD has a high priority;
in response to determining that the port of the additional PSE does not have the high priority, send a control communication to the additional PSE indicating the additional PSE to increase port priority of the port; and
in response to determining that the port of the additional PSE has the high priority, send another control communication to the additional PSE, wherein the other control communication is indicative of a request to the additional PSE to increase the power allotment of the additional PSE for the PD.
13. The PSE of claim 1 , wherein to detect occurrence of the event, the control circuitry is configured to check whether transport layer protocol communications comprising keep alive communications are received from the additional PSE.
14. The PSE of claim 1 , wherein responsive to detecting the event, the control circuitry is further configured to:
send a first link layer protocol communication to the PD, the first link layer protocol communication indicative to the PD that the additional PSE is going under maintenance; and
send, a second link layer protocol communication to the PD, the second link layer protocol communication indicative of a request to the PD to adjust at least one of power ask, PD signature configuration, and PD power class such that operation of the PD is uninterrupted.
15. A method for Power over Ethernet (POE) management comprising:
exchanging, by a Power Source Equipment (PSE), a first set of transport layer protocol communications with an additional PSE, the PSE and the additional PSE being configured to provide PoE to a Powered Device (PD), the first set of transport layer protocol communications comprising:
a first communication from the PSE to the additional PSE comprising a first PoE configuration field indicative of a PoE configuration of the PSE; and
a second communication from the additional PSE to the PSE comprising a second PoE configuration field indicative of a PoE configuration of the additional PSE;
creating a power availability table for the PD based on information from the first PoE configuration field and the second PoE configuration field, wherein the power availability table is indicative of availability of PoE for the PD from the PSE and the additional PSE;
detecting occurrence of an event comprising at least one of a change in the power availability table or a change in ability of the PSE to provide power to the PD; and
sending, based at least in part on occurrence of the event, a second set of transport layer protocol communications to the additional PSE, the second set of transport layer protocol communications comprising a request to the additional PSE to adjust a power allotment of the additional PSE for the PD.
16. The method of claim 15 , wherein exchanging the first set of transport layer protocol communications with the additional PSE comprises:
sending the first communication to a management Internet Protocol (IP) address of the additional PSE; and
receiving the second communication from the management IP address of the additional PSE.
17. The method of claim 15 , wherein the PoE configuration of the PSE comprises PoE capabilities of the PSE.
18. The method of claim 17 , wherein PoE capabilities of the PSE comprise at least one of a power budget of the PSE, a firmware version of the PSE, or a configuration of power supply units (PSUs) of the PSE.
19. A powered device (PD) comprising:
a control circuitry;
a first uplink port;
a second uplink port; and
control circuitry configured to, in a state of the first uplink port being connected to a first Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) and the second uplink port being connected to a second PSE:
receive power from the first PSE via an Ethernet cable that is plugged into the first uplink port;
receive power from the second PSE via another Ethernet cable that is plugged into the second uplink port;
receive a first link layer protocol communication from the first PSE, in response to occurrence of an event comprising at least one of a change in a power availability table of the PD or a change in ability of the PSE to provide power to the PD, wherein the first link layer protocol communication is indicative of a request to adjust PD power draw, wherein the power availability table is indicative of availability of PoE for the PD based on PoE configuration of the first PSE and PoE configuration of the second PSE;
adjust, based on the first link layer protocol communication, the PD power draw; and
send a second link layer protocol communication to one of the PSE or the second PSE to draw power based on the adjusted PD power draw.
20. The PD of claim 19 , wherein the control circuitry is configured to switch the PD from a normal mode to a power save mode in response to receiving the first link layer protocol communication.