[178776] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: optical gear cooling requirements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Crocker)
Wed Mar 4 17:20:01 2015
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From: Matthew Crocker <matthew@corp.crocker.com>
In-Reply-To: <54F77F02.7040803@foobar.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 17:19:49 -0500
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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> On Mar 4, 2015, at 4:54 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
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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.
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> 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.
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> +1 on portmasters, though.
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My ISP grew up on Livingston Postmaster 2e & 3s. I even had a =
Postmaster 4 for a bit. Lucent swapped that out for an APX 8000. I =
still have an Ascend TNT running the remainder of my modem pool. 8 =
Active users on it at the moment.
Recently won a state contract for IP services. The very first order was =
for a chunk of dialup accounts so the Department of Conservation and =
Recreation could call in from their firepowers.
It just keeps chugging away in a forgotten corner of my datacenter.
> Nick
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