58 I ICT TODAY
Case Study: Codisa Data Center, Costa Rica
International PoE Projects Highlight Opportunities
By Andrew Pospisal and Dwight Stewart
In the opinion of stakeholders across the power over Ethernet (PoE) ecosystem, PoE is now a top-down directive.
In other words, the decision to integrate PoE cabling typically comes from the highest levels of an organization.
Most PoE adoption is driven by business owners requesting it from general contractors, who must then push
their design teams down that path. Generally, these are innovation-minded owners leading progressive companies,
which not coincidentally, make great partners for growth-oriented ICT firms.
This is why so much of today's PoE impact is found within the world's high-tech sectors. The organizational
and cultural values of tech companies create a natural alignment for operating outside the comfort zone of status
quo power and communication plans.
