5. Device Concept MMX8x4-HT series – User's Manual 39
Power over Ethernet (PoE)
WARNING! The remote power feature of TPS 95 series extenders is not PoE-compatible. Thus, TPS 95
power jumper of the extender is removed or set to 'Remote power disabled' position.
INFO: MMX8x4-HT420M model has PoE support.
TPS input and output ports are able to supply other HDBase-T compliant devices over the TPS lines which
are PoE-compliant as well. In this case, the connected transmitter or receiver does not require a local power
supply.
ATTENTION! The Ethernet ports do not support PoE. Only the TPS ports have PoE function.
The PoE feature in the practice
The TPS ports of the matrix are in accordance with IEEE 802.3af (PoE) standard. The feature is demonstrated
Extenders Supplied without Local Power
The concept
Supply the connected extenders through the CATx (TPS) cables without local adapters.
Settings
▪ Extenders: the device must be PoE-compatible or else the feature will not work.
▪ Matrix:
the port properties window; see TPS Input Port Properties and HDMI and TPS Output Port Properties
section.
INFO: PoE-compatible and not compatible devices can be connected simultaneously as the feature can
be set individually on each port.
Video Interface
Summary of Video Interfaces
The table below shows the number of the video signals and connector types by model.
Model type
INPUT OUTPUT
Connector type Connector type
TPS 4x
HDMI 4x
HDMI 4x
TPS 4x HDMI 2x
HDMI 4x TPS 2x
HDMI 8x HDMI 8x
The video crosspoint settings can be controlled by any of the following ways:
▪ Crosspoint Menu section),
▪ Switch One Input to One Output
Switching and Crosspoint Settings section),
▪ Using the Autoselect function (for more details see The Autoselect Feature section),
▪ Crosspoint Menu section), or
▪ Pressing the Source and Destination buttons on the front panel* (see Switching Operations section).
* Only in MMX8x8-HDMI-4K-A model.