2012/2/17 Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Please post your top 3 favorite components/parts you'd like to see in a vending machine at your colo; please be as specific as possible; don't let vendor specificity scare you off.
Cheers, -- jra
1 - As previously said : LC/SC couplers + patchcords 2 - fibre/connectors cleaning kit 3 - SC/LC optical attenuators 4 - Laser pen that can send visible red beam in blink/continuous mode 5 - as said previously too : USB-RS232 adaptator 6 - plastic cable clamps (don't know the exact english term for that but I mean this --> http://www.hellopro.fr/images/produit-2/9/3/8/serre-cables-261839.jpg) 7 - compressed air can to clean dust 8 - CAT5 tester A good this to be able to borrow from the noc (because a bit problematic to put then in a vending machine) : - an Optical Power Meter - a live fiber detection device (to be able to detect presence of light and the direction of the light in a fibre without disconnecting it) we use these at work and they're awesome : http://www.exfo.com/en/Products/Field-Network-Testing/Optical/Signal-Detecti... - a plunger (not sure about the english translation for this one too :-) ) -- Pierre-Yves Maunier