At first thought, if the 7507 are in close proximately, you should be able to use an optical splitter (no DC power, not heavy, not expensive) to send the OC-3 signal to both boxes at once. Then you can remotely turn up or down the 7507 interfaces. Misconfiguration could mean a monumental disaster though.
Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of neal rauhauser Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:04 AM To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [c-nsp] small box for switching POS link? 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 _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
