Hi Arnold, I have recently been talking to these guys ( https://www.metamako.com/use-cases/ ) about intelligent cross connect management within our data centers. Maybe this would work for you, and probably less complicated than a robot. Cheers Pete On 11/12/2014 09:21, "joel jaeggli" <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:
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?
With the robotic system you still need to wire everything up so it's available to be xconnected.
We've done electromechanical cross connect termination before on a very large scale.
http://www.siemens.com/history/pool/newsarchiv/newsmeldungen/20110403_bild _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 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 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.
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