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Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Feb 20 16:30:11 2012

Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:29:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120220175507.GA66123@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leo Bicknell" <bicknell@ufp.org>

> This reminded me of another gizmo I'd like to have...
> 
> How about a Bluetooth to Serial adapter? Routers don't (yet) have
> iLO, but I have this fantasy about being able to walk into a colo
> with a handfull of small adapters that I simply plug on to consoles
> and then sit down with my laptop and can access all the serial ports
> without having to run cables.

C-O-N-N-E-C-T-I-C-U-T.

This is another device that's been around for some time:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/230748054309

That one's from Quatech (for the archives), but I know some other mfgs
make them too.

Cheers,
-- jra
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