A sync injecter with 28 ports 24 sync injected ports + 4 POE ports for BH's that would keep things much cleaner at tower sites
— Sent from Mailbox On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Mathew Howard via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: > +1 to that. > ________________________________ > From: Af [af-boun...@afmug.com] on behalf of Josh Reynolds via Af > [af@afmug.com] > Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 7:59 PM > To: af@afmug.com > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] PacketFlux Product Ideas > You know what I really need more than anything else? > I need a DC-terminal POE pass-through for 8-16 devices, where I can toggle > between UBNT 24v passive poe, 48-56v, and maybe 56V 1A per-port. Maybe two > models, an "8 device" and a "16 device" model (16/32 ports). > Also will want a rack-mount version with 24 devices (48 ports), so make that > maybe 3 models. > This way I can use whatever switch I want, yet still have full control over > each device. It should be able to send syslog messages/traps, and that's > pretty much it. > Josh Reynolds, Chief Information Officer > SPITwSPOTS, www.spitwspots.com<http://www.spitwspots.com> > On 10/05/2014 12:19 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) via Af wrote: > It's been (quite) a while since I sent one of these messages out to the list. > With the release of all of our new gigabit injectors, it is time for me to > decide which products will be next out the door at PacketFlux. > We've got several products at various stages of completion, but almost all of > them I expect to be very low volume projects - the type of products we > complete just because they help fill out our product offering instead of > expecting a lot of revenue from them. A couple of these have appeared on > the website recently - I.E. a 2 Relay, 3 Switch module, and the > voltmeter/shunt input modules. > So, what I'd love to hear is some suggestions for products PacketFlux could > build which would help you in your WISP. I'm particularly looking for > products which if they existed would go at every one of your tower sites, or > even better at every customer location. I know these product ideas exist out > there, and I'd love to hear them. Feel free to throw ideas out which are > outside of the narrow niche that you think of PacketFlux fitting into. > One final note - there is always a query for an all-in-one tower device > which includes some mixture of ac power supply, dc-dc conversion, battery > charging/management, Ethernet switch, router, power injection, fiber > conversion, etc.. I've heard those loud and clear and am aware of that > desire. There's work being done in-house toward something like that, but > there are many hurdles left to make it a reality. If there's a simplified > version of this which would fit a specific, widespread, need I'd love to hear > about it, but the idea of a device you put into your rack and it handles > everything needed at a tower site is still quite a ways off for us. > So, throw your best ideas out there... I'd love to take a couple and run with > them. > -forrest
