3Com offers several Access Points -including wireless APs that support Power over Ethernet (PoE) -for extending your wired LAN to wireless clients. APs that support PoE are particularly helpful if one needs to setup a WLAN, but has a facility layout that makes it nearly impossible/impractical to drill holes or to run both the Ethernet and the power cable.

PoE APs can be particularly cost-effective when (a) the user density per AP is rather modest (under 64), and (b) the cabling happens to be a real challenge. If you are faced with such constraints, you may want to consider PoE products (such as the 3Com Baseline Switch 2226- PWR Plus, etc.) that need only a Category 5 (or a Cat 6) Ethernet cable for both -the power and as well as the Ethernet/LAN port.

We have listed below some of the popular 3COM APs, and summarized/outlined their salient features.