[178774] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: optical gear cooling requirements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Wed Mar 4 16:54:17 2015
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From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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On 04/03/2015 21:33, Jay Hennigan wrote:
> We used Livingston Portmaster 3 back in the day. Front to back
> ventilation, ran cool as a cucumber, plug it in and it just worked.
> Awesome gear until Lucent bought the company to kill the product in
> favor of their Ascend TNT space heaters.
Ascend kit was a horror to deal with. I ran isdn dialin on some of their
lower end kit at one stage. It only worked because I put it on a power
timer which power-cycled it twice a day.
+1 on portmasters, though.
Nick
