I believe it also has no eSim (SpeedFusion Connect) Sim built-in as well.
For powering it via PoE you could do something like this:
AMZ Poe to 12v barrel
Cradelpoint 12v barrel female to 4 pin male.
https://forum.peplink.com/t/pepwave-4-pin-power-connector-/6320fcd4f36f2e72fe7fe0df/1
By the time you do that it would negate any saving on the core vs standard model, unless you got it because you wanted it more secure without wifi.
I’d strongly recommend peplink to review the core offering to include the PoE input chip as a minimum. I’d also like to start seeing more models that support PoE input including the 20x.
Sometime we need to mount devices up high to get a good cellular signal and being able to do so and only use one or two ethernet cables would be great.