[129876] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: async serial fiber transceivers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Painter)
Tue Sep 21 20:07:06 2010
From: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
To: "Christopher O'Brien" <obriapqz@bc.edu>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:06:50 -1000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Christopher O'Brien wrote:
> Greetings,
> I am planning on deploying a console access server on my network for
> 20-30 network devices including routers, wireless controllers and other
> devices. The design is to have one central device for all console access.
>
> Due to the geographic diversity of my campus, I will need need to carry
> the async serial connections over my fiber plant with long reach optics
> and single mode fiber. I have the fiber plant to support this design.
> I have been researching solutions to implement the serial part, but I am
> not very familiar with the vendors I am coming up with. For instance, I
> know Black Box Networks makes products like this but they only seem to
> have stand alone devices. I was hoping for something rack mountable
> since I will have a dense deployment of these devices.
>
> Does anyone have experience deploying a solution like this or with async
> serial fiber transceivers in general? I welcome any suggestions.
> -Chris
You could try calling these folks:
http://www.bb-elec.com/custom.asp
http://www.bb-elec.com/SubCategory.asp?SubCategoryId=34&Trail=11&TrailType=Main
