what is inline power Cisco switch forum?
Answer: Inline power switch means that switch can provide current to IP phones
eg:
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When you connect an IP phone to a switch using a trunk link, it can cause high CPU utilization in the switches.
As all the VLANs for a particular interface are trunked to the phone, it increases the number of STP instances the switch has to manage.
This increases the CPU utilization.
Trunking also causes unnecessary broadcast / multicast / unknown unicast traffic to hit the phone link
Answer: Inline power switch means that switch can provide current to IP phones
eg:
<Link removed by moderator>
When you connect an IP phone to a switch using a trunk link, it can cause high CPU utilization in the switches.
As all the VLANs for a particular interface are trunked to the phone, it increases the number of STP instances the switch has to manage.
This increases the CPU utilization.
Trunking also causes unnecessary broadcast / multicast / unknown unicast traffic to hit the phone link