Hello,
Is there any reason why https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:PoE-In may be preferable to TIA/EIA-568-B.1-2001 T568A or T568B (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_6_cable)?
Shouldn’t straight wiring using any of mentioned schemes work just fine for Passive PoE devices (except when peculiarity is explicitly noted, as for RBFTC11)? I’m using S/FTP, if it matters.
When looking at Mikrotik’s table, you can safely omit the column “color” … it then becomes TIA-indiferent … After all, it’s only important that each ethernet cable section (e.g. a jumper cable or jack-to-jack run) is done according to single scheme (e.g. T568B), the next one can be different (e.g. jumper cable T568A plugged into jack T568B is just fine).
The point in PoE wiring table are the RJ45 pin numbers … and any ethernet wiring, which passes tests (not only as connection between two ethernet appliances, but also rigorous tests e.g. using ethernet test equipment) will work for PoE quite fine (the sub-standard cables tend to show poor results on ethernet testers as well).
Thank you, mkx.