[175676] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NOC Calendar
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Tue Oct 28 00:25:18 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 21:24:56 -0700
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>, chris <tknchris@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <30ACD0D6-DF8A-45F7-834B-478933A01201@delong.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 10/27/14 9:27 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> There are boxes that do that, but it=E2=80=99s really not a good soluti=
on=E2=80=A6 Here=E2=80=99s why:
>=20
> 1. TV signals in NTSC max out at 640x480. In ATSC, you get up to 1920x1=
080.
> Many monitors today are capable of 2560x1440 or more.
>=20
> 2. It=E2=80=99s expensive and has few advantages over a traditional KVM=
switch.
>=20
> 3. An HDMI switcher and graphic cards with HDMI output are not particul=
arly hard
> to find these days. DVI->HDMI is also relatively easy if you have trou=
ble getting
> HDMI out of the machine. This is a much less expensive solution.
>=20
> Its fairly trivial to get VM video out to HDMI if you=E2=80=99re willin=
g to dedicate hardware to the
> task.
It is pretty trivial at this point to have a network attached device
serve as a remote display for essentially arbitrary sources.
There's no real point imho in attaching to any machine other than the
one directly in front of you over anything other than ip protocol.
>=20
> Owen
>=20
>> On Oct 24, 2014, at 7:38 AM, chris <tknchris@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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 vir=
tual
>> machines and encode it into a standard TV signal so your average TV wi=
th 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 int=
o
>> every TV.
>>
>> If this already exists or someone has built anything like this I would=
love
>> to hear about it.
>>
>> - chris
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:07 AM, James Wininger <jwininger@ifncom.net=
>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone on the list have a reference to a good "NOC" calendar? Wh=
at I
>>> mean by that is a calendar that is view only for the NOC, but looks "=
good"
>>> on a larger LCD panel display.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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 acces=
sible
>>> "view only" at a glance. They would not have to load up outlook, go t=
o
>>> calendar, select the MPLS, install etc to see what work is happening.=
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jim Wininger
>>>
>>>
>=20
>=20
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