[175649] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NOC Calendar
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Oct 27 12:30:14 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAKnNFz-xJYMKCzi5-osLno7mBSZM9Zf4ZZuwje35Opy0UD4eAg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 09:27:24 -0700
To: chris <tknchris@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
There are boxes that do that, but it=E2=80=99s really not a good =
solution=E2=80=A6 Here=E2=80=99s why:
1. TV signals in NTSC max out at 640x480. In ATSC, you get up to =
1920x1080.
Many monitors today are capable of 2560x1440 or more.
2. It=E2=80=99s expensive and has few advantages over a traditional =
KVM switch.
3. An HDMI switcher and graphic cards with HDMI output are not =
particularly hard
to find these days. DVI->HDMI is also relatively easy if you =
have trouble getting
HDMI out of the machine. This is a much less expensive solution.
Its fairly trivial to get VM video out to HDMI if you=E2=80=99re willing =
to dedicate hardware to the
task.
Owen
> On Oct 24, 2014, at 7:38 AM, chris <tknchris@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> I was looking into something like this a while back and one thing that
> didnt seem to exist but I thought would be cool is if you could have a =
x86
> box or appliance that could take video output of lets say a couple =
virtual
> machines and encode it into a standard TV signal so your average TV =
with a
> builtin tuner and have each VM's display encoded into a different TV
> channel. This way you could throw up TV's everywhere and easily change
> whats displayed at any time without having to have devices plugged =
into
> every TV.
>=20
> If this already exists or someone has built anything like this I would =
love
> to hear about it.
>=20
> - chris
>=20
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:07 AM, James Wininger =
<jwininger@ifncom.net>
> wrote:
>=20
>> Does anyone on the list have a reference to a good "NOC" calendar? =
What I
>> mean by that is a calendar that is view only for the NOC, but looks =
"good"
>> on a larger LCD panel display.
>>=20
>> Ideally it would automatically rotate on a given schedule (say 6am), =
and
>> then show only that days scheduled events, there would be no need for =
the
>> NOC to interact with the calendar, just consume the data.
>>=20
>> Perhaps it would be color coded to show "DWDM work", vs MPLS work, or =
even
>> "new installs". But the idea is that the NOC would have readily =
accessible
>> "view only" at a glance. They would not have to load up outlook, go =
to
>> calendar, select the MPLS, install etc to see what work is happening.
>>=20
>>=20
>> --
>> Jim Wininger
>>=20
>>=20
