PoE Technology on Display at the Cisco Booth
Splunk .conf26 has wrapped, and now that the booth is packed up and the LEGO bricks are back in their bins, it’s worth taking a step back and reflecting on a week that put PoE technology in front of more people than usual in Denver.
MHT was excited to be on hand at the Cisco exhibit, showing off our Inspextor PoE controllers to a show floor full of IT, networking and building technology professionals. Inspextor played a quiet but real role in the show’s most talked-about exhibit, the Cisco LEGO AI Smart City, where our nodes powered the lighting inside the model and demonstrated exactly how PoE technology turns a network into an intelligent, connected system.
Seeing that architecture at a tabletop scale, with Cisco networking underneath and Inspextor nodes at the edge, gave attendees an easy way to grasp what PoE technology actually does once it’s installed rather than just talked about.
Hundreds of Conversations, One Common Thread
What stood out most wasn’t the exhibit itself, though. It was the conversations. Hundreds of attendees stopped by the Cisco booth over the course of the event, and a significant number of them wanted to talk specifically about PoE technology: how it works, where it fits into their infrastructure plans, and what it takes to move a building from a collection of standalone systems to a genuinely connected one.
Some were networking professionals who understood the switching and data side of PoE technology well but hadn’t yet considered lighting and sensors as part of that same network. Others were building owners and facility managers who came in curious about smart building concepts in general and left with a much more concrete picture of how PoE technology gets a building there.
That level of interest is a good sign for where the industry is headed, and it confirmed something we’ve seen play out again and again in our own work: PoE technology has moved well past the early-adopter conversation and into practical, day-to-day planning for commercial buildings. It’s no longer a question of whether PoE technology belongs in a building’s infrastructure roadmap, but how quickly it can be integrated and how much of the building it can eventually support.
Every conversation at the booth, whether it lasted two minutes or twenty, was a chance to keep doing what MHT has been doing for years now: continuing to educate about PoE technology, one project, one question and one booth visit at a time.
Splunk .conf26 was a strong close to the fall conference season, and it sets up an equally busy October for the MHT team.
Greg Silverman Keynotes BICSI Jacksonville
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Greg Silverman, our Chief Revenue Officer, will take the stage as a keynote speaker at BICSI in Jacksonville, Florida. BICSI draws the infrastructure professionals who design, install and maintain the low-voltage and limited energy systems that make buildings work, so it’s a natural venue for Greg to speak directly to the audience shaping the future of PoE technology and Fault Managed Power deployment.
It’s also exactly the kind of room where continuing to educate about PoE technology matters most: an audience of specifiers, installers and integrators who will be making real infrastructure decisions in the months ahead.
Next Stop: WebXOne
We’ll also be at WebXOne, connecting with the broader technology and workplace experience community shaping how organizations think about connected infrastructure. WebXOne brings together a different mix of attendees than a networking-focused show like Splunk .conf26, and that’s part of the value. It’s a chance to talk about PoE technology with people who are approaching intelligent buildings from the workplace experience side rather than the network engineering side, and to show how the two are increasingly the same conversation. More details on the event are available at webexone.com.
Rounding Out October at CRETech
MHT will close out the month at CRETech, where commercial real estate and technology intersect directly. It’s a fitting audience given how much of our work centers on bringing PoE technology and intelligent infrastructure into commercial buildings, and CRETech tends to draw the owners, developers and asset managers who ultimately decide what gets built into a property. More information is available at cretech.com.
Between Splunk .conf26 and a full slate of October events, it’s shaping up to be a season full of the kind of conversations that move PoE technology from a concept into something teams are actively building toward. Each stop is another opportunity to keep doing what MHT set out to do: showing up, listening to what infrastructure teams are actually trying to solve, and continuing to educate about PoE technology in a way that’s grounded in real projects rather than abstractions. We’re looking forward to continuing those conversations on the road.