[c-nsp] small box for switching POS link?

[Shawn Morris]

MRV makes a line of L1 cross-connect boxes including a 1RU box.
They're not dirt cheap but not insanely expensive either.
http://www.mrv.com

On 11/20/07, neal rauhauser <nrauhauser at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Ladies & Gentlemen,
>
>
>     I have a customer with PA-POS-OC3 cards installed in a pair of
> Cisco 7507s. Right now they can physically remove the line from the
> first machine, plug it into the second, and things neatly switch over.
>
>
>     They've asked me to come up with a remote control method of
> switching the fiber optic line. The incoming circuit and two routers
> are the only things we're ever going to switch at this location. This
> solution does not need to be carrier grade, it just needs to be
> remotely controllable.
>
>
>     I suspect the answer is that anything that switches STM1 sonet
> links is going to be large, heavy, expensive, and -48v - all things
> that do not fit with what these guys are trying to do. if anyone has
> any inspiration on how to accomplish this I'd be glad to hear it ...
>
>
>
>
>                                                                        Neal
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