Port Power Priority

You can configure the power priority of each port by choosing low, high, or critical power priority settings.

The switch automatically drops low-priority ports when the power requirements exceed the available power budget. When the power requirements become lower than the switch power budget, the power returns to the dropped port. When several ports have the same priority and the power budget is exceeded, the ports with the highest interface number are dropped until the consumption is within the power budget.

The priority methods are:

1. Port configured PoE priority

• Low: (default) standard priority for standard devices

• High: higher priority than low for important devices

• Critical: highest priority for critical devices like wireless APs

2. Port number priority where the lower port numbers have a higher priority.

PD Classification