INTEGRATED CONNECTOR FOR UNIVERSAL POWER OVER ETHERNET

The invention discloses an integrated connector for universal Power Vver Ethernet. Power Over Ethernet (POE)/universal power over Ethernet (UPoE) may be enabled at multigigabit port-channel connections. This may allow for additional speed support in auto-negotiation messages while employing multigigabit speeds. An integrated connector module (referred to herein as a "ICM") compatible with UPoE with a modified local physical layer (PHY) circuit may be capable of supporting multi- gigabit data rates (such as between IG to 10G, e.g., 2.5G and 5G) as to not limit the data rates to IG. The ICM may provide multi-gig data transmission through a first plurality of pins comprising a multi-gig data pin area. Furthermore, the ICM may provide UPoE power to support the multi-gig transmission through a second plurality of pins comprising a UPoE power pin area. 以太网供电(PoE)/通用以太网供电(UPoE)可被实现于多千兆比特的端口信道连接处。这可在使用多千兆比特速度的同时允许自动协商消息中的附加速度支持。与UPoE兼容的集成连接器模块(这里被称作"ICM")连同经修改的本地物理层(PHY)电路能够支持多千兆比特的数据速率(例如，1G到10G之间(例如，2.5G和5G)的数据速率)，