Chapter 1      Product Overview
10/100 and 10/100/1000 Ethernet Switching Modules
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• Phone discovery—Automatically detects the presence of an IP phone and 
supplies inline power to the phone.
• Auxiliary VLANs—Provides automatic VLAN configuration for IP phones 
using IEEE 802.1Q as the standards-based VLAN tagging mechanism 
between the switch and the IP phone.
The QoS port architecture (Rx/Tx) for this module is 1q4t/2q2t.
Figure 1-6 48-Port 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet Switching Module (WS-X6148V-GE-TX)
The front panel LEDs are described in Table 1-6 on page 1-47.
48-Port 10/100BASE-T Ethernet Switching Module 
(WS-X6148-RJ21V)
The 48-port 10/100BASE-T switching module (WS-X6148-RJ21V) provides 48 
switched, 10/100-Mbps autosensing, full- or half-duplex ports. (See Figure 1-7.) 
The module has 4 RJ-21 connectors (12 ports per connector) for use with either 
Category 3, Category 5, Category 5e, or Category 6 UTP cable. The “V” in the 
product number indicates that the inline-power daughter card (WS-F6K-VPWR) 
is installed on the module. With the WS-F6K-VPWR daughter card installed, the 
module provides these IP phone features on each port:
• Inline power—Provides 48 VDC over standard Category 5, Category 5e, or 
Category 6 UTP cable up to 328 feet (100 meters) from the switch to the IP 
phone. With inline power, pairs 2 and 3 (pins 1, 2, 3, and 6) of the four pairs 
in the cable are used to transmit power (6.3 W) from the switch. This method 
of supplying power is sometimes called phantom power because the power 
signals travel over the same two pairs used to transmit Ethernet signals. The 
power signals are completely transparent to the Ethernet signals and do not 
interfere with their operation.
• Phone discovery—Automatically detects the presence of an IP phone and 
supplies inline power to the phone.
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WS-X6148V-GE-TX
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