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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