[176717] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: automatic / intelligent fiber optic patch panel (iow SDN @ layer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Wed Dec 10 20:21:20 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:21:03 -0800
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Phil Bedard <bedard.phil@gmail.com>, Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de>,
nanog@nanog.org
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On 12/10/14 4:33 PM, Phil Bedard wrote:
> Curious what the use case is where a photonic or L1 switch wouldn't get=
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> the job done? =20
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> With the robotic system you still need to wire everything up so it's=20
> available to be xconnected. =20
We've done electromechanical cross connect termination before on a very
large scale.
http://www.siemens.com/history/pool/newsarchiv/newsmeldungen/20110403_bil=
d_3_fernsprechamt_muenchen-schwabing_458px.jpg
those systems typically don't have the capacity to connect 100% of the
edges at once.
> FiberZone was another vendor who made robotic patch panels, but I'm not=
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> sure they are around anymore.=20
their website is still there, I've never seen an AFM live.
> Interesting also Verizon has a patent on automated patch panels, but us=
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> very specific mechanics. =20
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> https://www.google.com/patents/US8175425
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> Phil=20
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> 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 fi=
bre
>>>> optic patch panel.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not looking at these photonic x-connects, but really for somethi=
ng
>>>> which does the patching instead of a technician.
>>>>
>>
>> Arnold
>> --=20
>> Arnold Nipper / nIPper consulting, Sandhausen, Germany
>> email: arnold@nipper.de phone: +49 6224 5593407 2
>> mobile: +49 172 2650958 fax: +49 6224 5593407 9
>>
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