Impact of 100W PoE on cabling infrastructure

Didier Willems

Didier started his career in the early eighties as R&D engineer working on the development of Optical Fibre transmission systems making use of the very first generations of optical fibres, connectors, lasers and photodiodes. He joined Nexans in 1991 as Project Manager dealing with cabling and networking systems installation in EMERA and Asia. Later he became Project Design & Support department Manager at Nexans Cabling Solutions (LAN cabling Systems). Didier is currently the Head of Technical Support, Training & Certification of the Nexans Telecom Systems Business Unit. Didier is an Engineer in electronics and holds a masters degree in Management of Innovation. He is Senior expert in data cable and cabling systems within Nexans TESLA (Technical ExpertS Ladder) and a member of National and International standardisation committees such as ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 25/ WG3 and CLC TC 215/ WG 01.