[176876] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: automatic / intelligent fiber optic patch panel (iow SDN @ layer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ammar Zuberi)
Mon Dec 15 06:02:52 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Ammar Zuberi <ammar@fastreturn.net>
In-Reply-To: <D0B46BAD.76894%peter.testrake@tradingscreen.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:02:40 +0400
To: Peter teStrake <Peter.teStrake@tradingscreen.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Doesn't the MetaMako device do exactly the same thing as the Glimmerglass ph=
otonic switch?
Ammar
> On 15 Dec 2014, at 2:50 pm, Peter teStrake <Peter.teStrake@tradingscreen.c=
om> wrote:
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> Hi Arnold,
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> I have recently been talking to these guys (
> https://www.metamako.com/use-cases/ ) about intelligent cross connect
> management within our data centers.
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> Maybe this would work for you, and probably less complicated than a robot.=
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> Cheers
> Pete
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>> On 11/12/2014 09:21, "joel jaeggli" <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:
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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
>>> the job done? =20
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>>> With the robotic system you still need to wire everything up so it's
>>> available to be xconnected.
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>> We've done electromechanical cross connect termination before on a very
>> large scale.
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>> http://www.siemens.com/history/pool/newsarchiv/newsmeldungen/20110403_bil=
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>> _3_fernsprechamt_muenchen-schwabing_458px.jpg
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>> those systems typically don't have the capacity to connect 100% of the
>> edges at once.
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>>> FiberZone was another vendor who made robotic patch panels, but I'm not
>>> sure they are around anymore.
>> their website is still there, I've never seen an AFM live.
>>> Interesting also Verizon has a patent on automated patch panels, but
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>>> very specific mechanics.
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>>> https://www.google.com/patents/US8175425
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>>>> On 12/9/14, 11:51 PM, "Arnold Nipper" <arnold@nipper.de> wrote:
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>>>> Am 2014-12-10 00:36, schrieb Andrew Jones:
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>>>>> 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
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>>>>>> On 10.12.2014 10:21, Arnold Nipper wrote:
>>>>>> I'm looking for a modular, cost-effective automatic / intelligent
>>>>>> fibre
>>>>>> optic patch panel.
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>>>>>> I'm not looking at these photonic x-connects, but really for
>>>>>> something
>>>>>> which does the patching instead of a technician.
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>>>> Arnold
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>>>> 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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