Except for AT&T, most incumbents here aren't also mobile wireless providers, so that is an option in most cases for truly OOB.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Saku Ytti" <s...@ytti.fi> To: "James Bensley" <jwbens...@gmail.com> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 4:04:58 AM Subject: Re: Console Servers On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 at 11:54, James Bensley <jwbens...@gmail.com> wrote: > I forgot to mention, it also depends how "out" of band your OOB needs > to be. We use Ciena 6500s for our DWDM infrastructure and they have a > wayside channel (like various DWDM vendors), so it's a separate > channel over the same physical fibre. For anything except a fibre cut > it seems to work. This is gold standard for incumbents, as they don't have anything true out-of-band they can consistently buy, everything travels in their network at some point anyhow. -- ++ytti
