Lots of money is relative. Expensive, yes, but I think we'll get value out of it. We are adding sites that are a 5-6 hour drive from home base. We'll have remote hands, but we won't expect them to diagnose some major issue.
If we send a network engineer out there we'll have $500 in mileage, meals, hotel stays. Plus the opportunity cost of an engineer losing two days to driving. The other thing that's hard to fathom when we come from the WISP universe is that $2500 for this box is not actually very much when weighed against the six figures we'll spend on the POP. These are sites with up to 256 XGS-PON ports intended to serve up to 12,000 households. Sometimes they'll have two chassis for double that capacity. I actually don't care that this box costs $2500 when we're spending $15,000 on an L3 switch and $10k for each line card in the OLT. It's peanuts. And if one of them ever allows us to fix an outage without us losing 5-6 hours to driving then it just paid for itself plus10 of them at other sites that never got used. -Adam On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 6:56 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote: > That’s a lot of $$$. > > > > Reminds me of back when we used to have KVM servers at NOCs with remote > access. > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Adam Moffett > *Sent:* Friday, November 1, 2024 2:14 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Cellular console server > > > > > Has anyone used this product? Does it suck? > > > https://www.wti.com/products/dsm-8dcnm-e-gige-console-server-8-port-rj45-dual-ethernet > > > > I got spam from this company recently, and purely by chance I was > researching a cellular OOB management option so I got the manual and dug > into it a bit. It has exactly the features I'm looking for. I'm > wondering if by chance anyone here has already bought from this company and > maybe you can save me the trouble of finding out the hard way that they're > terrible. > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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