[176716] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: automatic / intelligent fiber optic patch panel (iow SDN @ layer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Bedard)
Wed Dec 10 19:33:19 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:33:07 -0500
From: Phil Bedard <bedard.phil@gmail.com>
To: Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <54878B0F.1000405@nipper.de>
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Curious what the use case is where a photonic or L1 switch wouldn't get
the job done?
With the robotic system you still need to wire everything up so it's
available to be xconnected.
FiberZone was another vendor who made robotic patch panels, but I'm not
sure they are around anymore.
Interesting also Verizon has a patent on automated patch panels, but using
very specific mechanics.
https://www.google.com/patents/US8175425
Phil
On 12/9/14, 11:51 PM, "Arnold Nipper" <arnold@nipper.de> wrote:
>Am 2014-12-10 00:36, schrieb Andrew Jones:
>
>> http://www.laser2000.de/out/media/glimmerglass_system_100%281%29.pdf
>>
>
>Thank you, Andrew ... while Glimmerglass is really an exciting and
>excdellent system, these devices are exactly those photonic cross
>connects I'm _not_ looking for :9
>
>> On 10.12.2014 10:21, Arnold Nipper wrote:
>>> I'm looking for a modular, cost-effective automatic / intelligent fibre
>>> optic patch panel.
>>>
>>> I'm not looking at these photonic x-connects, but really for something
>>> which does the patching instead of a technician.
>>>
>
>
>Arnold
>--
>Arnold Nipper / nIPper consulting, Sandhausen, Germany
>email: arnold@nipper.de phone: +49 6224 5593407 2
>mobile: +49 172 2650958 fax: +49 6224 5593407 9
>
