Building on innovation to enable the seamless sharing of power and data over the same Ethernet cable, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today announced a next-generation power management integrated circuit (IC) that simplifies design of IEEE 802.3af-compliant power source equipment (PSE). The versatile, quad-port power manager can support operation at -40º to +125º C for a wide range of commercial, industrial and military applications such as sophisticated enterprise systems with up to 128 ports to low-port count hub Ethernet switches for small office/home office applications.