On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 19:09 -0600, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (mail written in very short time due to bunissimo RL foo in .ni :-)
>
> we will be able to use the universities fibres to connect the different
> buildings at UCA university, see
> svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debconf-data/dc12/uca-map.xcf
>
> "servers" is where the serveroom is, which also has the uplink arriving. there
> we need a fibre switch. see the lower bunch of cables (which are all marked
> with the location of the other end!) on
>
> http://layer-acht.org/fotos/660_Nicaragua_2012/20120504_009_Sm.jpg.212.html
>
> One such other end you can see in
>
> http://layer-acht.org/fotos/660_Nicaragua_2012/20120424_014_Sm.jpg.12.html
>
> (Thats in "aula 2". Aula 1+3 and the hacklabs are equally equipped.)
>
> So the question is, who can bring such a switch and is also arriving very
> early at DebCamp?
It's not as simple as 'a fibre switch'; there are lots of different
modes for Ethernet over fibre and you need to have matching transceivers
at either end (no autoneg!). I would expect 1000BASE-SX but you will
have to check.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
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